A 14-year veteran of a California fire department is still recovering from long-term effects after having COVID-19."It's been a really long journey,맥스카지노� said Sacramento firefighter Matt Rogge, 41, describing what he experienced shortly after being diagnosed with the coronavirus in July.맥스카지노�I got a fever. It was 103 for a couple of days, and then it went down to 100, 101 for about four or five days after that 맥스카지노� extreme body aches, nausea. I couldn't eat anything. I couldn't hold anything down 맥스카지노� I ended up losing about 25 pounds in two weeks.맥스카지노�Rogge said he felt extreme fatigue as he started to recover. 맥스카지노�Trying to get out and walk to the front yard took everything I had,맥스카지노� he said.Rogge had to take a month-and-a-half off from work. When he went back to full-duty in mid-August, he said his strength and conditioning just weren맥스카지노�t the same as his pre-COVID days.맥스카지노�Everything takes a lot more effort,맥스카지노� said Rogge, who맥스카지노�s battled those lingering effects of the virus ever since.Rogge맥스카지노�s doctor, David Caretto, an occupational medicine physician for the Dignity Health System, referred Rogge to Mercy General's Pulmonary Rehabilitation Center, where he works with a respiratory therapist 맥스카지노� often suiting up in full firefighting gear and walking up flights of stairs to simulate his on-the-job conditions.맥스카지노�Knowing that it's gonna be a long road to getting back to my full strength has been difficult,맥스카지노� he said.Rogge isn't the only department member to get COVID-19, nor is he the only one to experience longer-term effects of it 맥스카지노� weeks or even months post-diagnosis.맥스카지노�It's non-discriminatory it doesn't matter who, what you are, where you come from,맥스카지노� said Greg Powell, a battalion chief for Sacramento Fire Department. 맥스카지노�In our term, the 'long-haulers.' There's a subsection of people that get COVID that do have long-term effects.맥스카지노�Powell said, oftentimes, 맥스카지노�long-haulers맥스카지노� still have difficulty breathing or exerting themselves.맥스카지노�They can walk around, but when they start moving at a more rapid pace or what we call 맥스카지노�fire ground pace,맥스카지노� it does affect them where they get short-of-breath, dizzy, light-headed, and it affects their job ability.맥스카지노�Powell said that can be a difficult reality to accept for people in this line of work.맥스카지노�We do this job because we love it. We do this job because we love helping people,맥스카지노� he explained. Watch the video above to learn more about Rogge's story.