This Christmas, Vanessa Villela, reality star and actress of Reality will not be enjoying Christmas dinner.
The TV personality on the hit Netflix show “Selling Sunset”She suffers from COVID long-term, so finding food is not an easy task.
“A lot of foods that I smell or taste, they smell or taste like sewage or like rotten meat. Or like garbage,” Villela said.
“So I get nauseous and then I cannot eat,”She went on.
Villela contracted COVID-19 back in August. She was not able to shoot for five weeks. “Selling Sunset”She has never fully recovered.
Research shows that up to 30% of COVID-19 patients, like Villela, suffer from a rollercoaster of symptoms over months. These include extreme fatigue, headaches, insomnia, brain fog and breathing problems.
“I started showering one day, and then when I was washing my hair, I started to pull out a lot of hair and I’m like what?” Villela said.
“It gets to a point when you are like when, I don’t know when is it going to end?”She went on.
Andrea Tomasek also would appreciate an answer to this question.
“Christmas Eve this year is going to be my 21-month anniversary of having symptoms of COVID,”Tomasek spoke.
Surprisingly, the virus was caught by the Minnesota mother at 38 years old in March 2020.
“I feel like a completely different person on the inside, and it’s not an improvement,”Tomasek spoke.
Since her onset, she has been suffering from a low grade fever each day.
Under the Americans with Disabilities Act, long-haul COVID-19 has been recognized as a disability.