It CAN get better

I've been super athletic my entire life, so at 19, when my POTs was suddenly triggered after getting COVID it felt like my life was over. I went from being a nationally competitive athlete to crawling up the stairs in under a month. Over the last three years I struggled so hard to get by in day to day life, and I had to give up so many things I loved.

Last year I decided I had enough and began walking, which led me to running, which has drastically improved my cardiovascular fitness. It took a loooong time to build up any sort of exercise tolerance, and I'm lucky enough that my POTs symptoms had been ebbing on their own as I grew up.

I can live my life with so much more confidence and less fear of a flare up now. All of this is to say that today I'm attempting to run 10km! How far I've come from not being able to stand long enough to cook a pot of pasta on the stove!