Ted Monroe
@tedmonroe91.bsky.social
English teacher; writer; impatient Long Covid patient
'Let us not seek our disease out of ourselves; ‘tis in us'
– Montaigne, one of his less impressive insights #mecfs #chronicillness #longcovid #pwme #pwlc
– Montaigne, one of his less impressive insights #mecfs #chronicillness #longcovid #pwme #pwlc
February 14, 2026 at 5:13 PM
'Let us not seek our disease out of ourselves; ‘tis in us'
– Montaigne, one of his less impressive insights #mecfs #chronicillness #longcovid #pwme #pwlc
– Montaigne, one of his less impressive insights #mecfs #chronicillness #longcovid #pwme #pwlc
A Meditation on Long Covid and the Fear of missing Out, or FOMO
#longcovid #mecfs #pwme @longcovidadvoc.com @longcovidsupport.bsky.social
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#longcovid #mecfs #pwme @longcovidadvoc.com @longcovidsupport.bsky.social
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'Well, they are gone, and here must I remain'
A meditation on FOMO and Long Covid
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February 13, 2026 at 2:52 PM
A Meditation on Long Covid and the Fear of missing Out, or FOMO
#longcovid #mecfs #pwme @longcovidadvoc.com @longcovidsupport.bsky.social
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#longcovid #mecfs #pwme @longcovidadvoc.com @longcovidsupport.bsky.social
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Reposted by Ted Monroe
Funded by the Buckinghamshire-based ME Association, external and carried out at Imperial College London, the Rosetta Stone study hopes to look for biomarkers and "decode the immunological profile" of both ME and Long Covid.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
#OverlappingIllness #ME #LongCovid
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#OverlappingIllness #ME #LongCovid
February 2, 2026 at 9:19 AM
Funded by the Buckinghamshire-based ME Association, external and carried out at Imperial College London, the Rosetta Stone study hopes to look for biomarkers and "decode the immunological profile" of both ME and Long Covid.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
#OverlappingIllness #ME #LongCovid
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
#OverlappingIllness #ME #LongCovid
Reposted by Ted Monroe
For us the pandemic never finished. We watch on in slumbery agitation as an amnesiac world carries on. We see, in W.H. Auden’s words, ‘how everything turns away / Quite leisurely from the disaster’.
www.the-fence.com/a-failure-to...
My article for @thefence.bsky.social on #longcovid.
www.the-fence.com/a-failure-to...
My article for @thefence.bsky.social on #longcovid.
A Failure to Convalesce
An interminable struggle to put on a jumper.
www.the-fence.com
March 15, 2025 at 3:39 PM
For us the pandemic never finished. We watch on in slumbery agitation as an amnesiac world carries on. We see, in W.H. Auden’s words, ‘how everything turns away / Quite leisurely from the disaster’.
www.the-fence.com/a-failure-to...
My article for @thefence.bsky.social on #longcovid.
www.the-fence.com/a-failure-to...
My article for @thefence.bsky.social on #longcovid.
Reposted by Ted Monroe
A Substack about post-viral illness and the poetry of T.S. Eliot
#longcovid #mecfs #chronicillness
Pinned and Wriggling
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#longcovid #mecfs #chronicillness
Pinned and Wriggling
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Pinned and Wriggling
Post-viral illness and the poetry of T.S. Eliot
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January 27, 2026 at 2:35 PM
A Substack about post-viral illness and the poetry of T.S. Eliot
#longcovid #mecfs #chronicillness
Pinned and Wriggling
open.substack.com/pub/tedmonro...
#longcovid #mecfs #chronicillness
Pinned and Wriggling
open.substack.com/pub/tedmonro...
A Substack about post-viral illness and the poetry of T.S. Eliot
#longcovid #mecfs #chronicillness
Pinned and Wriggling
open.substack.com/pub/tedmonro...
#longcovid #mecfs #chronicillness
Pinned and Wriggling
open.substack.com/pub/tedmonro...
Pinned and Wriggling
Post-viral illness and the poetry of T.S. Eliot
open.substack.com
January 27, 2026 at 2:35 PM
A Substack about post-viral illness and the poetry of T.S. Eliot
#longcovid #mecfs #chronicillness
Pinned and Wriggling
open.substack.com/pub/tedmonro...
#longcovid #mecfs #chronicillness
Pinned and Wriggling
open.substack.com/pub/tedmonro...
Check out 'The Art of Convalescence', a Substack with some teething issues about how art and literature can help people with chronic illness through the dark times... open.substack.com/pub/tedmonro...
@longcovidadvoc.com @longcovidsos.bsky.social @longcovidsupport.bsky.social
@longcovidadvoc.com @longcovidsos.bsky.social @longcovidsupport.bsky.social
The Art of Convalescence
How art and literature can guide us through the dark times of chronic illness
open.substack.com
January 8, 2026 at 4:24 PM
Check out 'The Art of Convalescence', a Substack with some teething issues about how art and literature can help people with chronic illness through the dark times... open.substack.com/pub/tedmonro...
@longcovidadvoc.com @longcovidsos.bsky.social @longcovidsupport.bsky.social
@longcovidadvoc.com @longcovidsos.bsky.social @longcovidsupport.bsky.social
Reposted by Ted Monroe
ME/CFS is a devastating condition that has long been denied, dismissed, psychologised and underdiagnosed. Research is at last starting to catch up with it, with glimmers of hope for those who have been left untreated for so long.
There's a huge BUT coming ...🧵
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
There's a huge BUT coming ...🧵
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Scientists develop first ‘accurate blood test’ to detect chronic fatigue syndrome
Research could offer hope for ME patients – but some experts urge caution and say more studies needed
www.theguardian.com
October 8, 2025 at 6:09 AM
ME/CFS is a devastating condition that has long been denied, dismissed, psychologised and underdiagnosed. Research is at last starting to catch up with it, with glimmers of hope for those who have been left untreated for so long.
There's a huge BUT coming ...🧵
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
There's a huge BUT coming ...🧵
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
@meactnet.bsky.social @longcovidadvoc.com @longcovidsupport.bsky.social @longcovidsos.bsky.social @meassociation.bsky.social @mecfsnews.bsky.social @longcovidphysio.bsky.social @putrinolab.bsky.social
For us the pandemic never finished. We watch on in slumbery agitation as an amnesiac world carries on. We see, in W.H. Auden’s words, ‘how everything turns away / Quite leisurely from the disaster’.
www.the-fence.com/a-failure-to...
My article for @thefence.bsky.social on #longcovid.
www.the-fence.com/a-failure-to...
My article for @thefence.bsky.social on #longcovid.
April 13, 2025 at 3:11 PM
@meactnet.bsky.social @longcovidadvoc.com @longcovidsupport.bsky.social @longcovidsos.bsky.social @meassociation.bsky.social @mecfsnews.bsky.social @longcovidphysio.bsky.social @putrinolab.bsky.social
For us the pandemic never finished. We watch on in slumbery agitation as an amnesiac world carries on. We see, in W.H. Auden’s words, ‘how everything turns away / Quite leisurely from the disaster’.
www.the-fence.com/a-failure-to...
My article for @thefence.bsky.social on #longcovid.
www.the-fence.com/a-failure-to...
My article for @thefence.bsky.social on #longcovid.
A Failure to Convalesce
An interminable struggle to put on a jumper.
www.the-fence.com
March 16, 2025 at 3:21 PM
For us the pandemic never finished. We watch on in slumbery agitation as an amnesiac world carries on. We see, in W.H. Auden’s words, ‘how everything turns away / Quite leisurely from the disaster’.
www.the-fence.com/a-failure-to...
My article for @thefence.bsky.social on #longcovid.
www.the-fence.com/a-failure-to...
My article for @thefence.bsky.social on #longcovid.
A Failure to Convalesce
An interminable struggle to put on a jumper.
www.the-fence.com
March 15, 2025 at 3:39 PM
For us the pandemic never finished. We watch on in slumbery agitation as an amnesiac world carries on. We see, in W.H. Auden’s words, ‘how everything turns away / Quite leisurely from the disaster’.
www.the-fence.com/a-failure-to...
My article for @thefence.bsky.social on #longcovid.
www.the-fence.com/a-failure-to...
My article for @thefence.bsky.social on #longcovid.
Reposted by Ted Monroe
'To have Long COVID, then, is to be trapped in paradox. This is no more apparent than in our furious efforts to recover, in which a profane blend of Puritanism and Paltrowism (the Gwyneth variety) do battle.'
A beautiful piece from Ted Monroe.
www.the-fence.com/a-failure-to...
A beautiful piece from Ted Monroe.
www.the-fence.com/a-failure-to...
A Failure to Convalesce
In his story, ‘Don’t Blame Anyone’, Julio Cortázar depicts one man’s interminable struggle to put on a jumper. The man is supposed to be meeting his wife at a store, and it is cold outside…
www.the-fence.com
March 11, 2025 at 11:57 AM
'To have Long COVID, then, is to be trapped in paradox. This is no more apparent than in our furious efforts to recover, in which a profane blend of Puritanism and Paltrowism (the Gwyneth variety) do battle.'
A beautiful piece from Ted Monroe.
www.the-fence.com/a-failure-to...
A beautiful piece from Ted Monroe.
www.the-fence.com/a-failure-to...