A Kansas City woman is sharing her story in an effort to help others after experiencing symptoms of long COVID-19.Kelsi Shiao tested positive for COVID-19 after celebrating her 21st birthday in September. "I was super sick. I felt like I had the flu," Shiao said. "Then I lost my sense of taste and smell and was like, 'OK I should probably go to the doctor, this is COVID.'"She said her sense of taste and smell came back after fourteen days. Then one week later, it was gone again. 맥스카지노�I had one week of normal and then everything started becoming distorted, my smell and taste, everything became very rotten,맥스카지노� Shiao said. She said everything smelled and tasted like nothing she had ever experienced before. 맥스카지노�I was constantly gagging. I would lock myself in my room. I was sleeping for like 24 hours a day,맥스카지노� she said. 맥스카지노�I couldn맥스카지노�t give you a name of exactly what it tasted like it just tasted really bad. It was just so bad I can맥스카지노�t even describe it.맥스카지노�She said the only things that didn맥스카지노�t taste bad were burgers from Freddy맥스카지노�s and turkey sandwiches with lettuce. She said she would usually only eat one per day and ended up losing close to 50 pounds. 맥스카지노�I was emotionally breaking down,맥스카지노� Shiao said. 맥스카지노�I could not smell anything. I couldn맥스카지노�t go to restaurants. I couldn맥스카지노�t do candles. I couldn맥스카지노�t do anyone cooking. I couldn맥스카지노�t be near anything smelling. Sometimes I couldn맥스카지노�t even hug my mom cause my mom맥스카지노�s smell was too much for me.맥스카지노�She started doing some research and found a nurse anesthetist in Texas who had treated other patients with similar symptoms to hers. After a phone call with the office, she booked an appointment and drove ten hours to Texas for an appointment with nurse anesthetist David Gaskin. 맥스카지노�It맥스카지노�s a trial run. It맥스카지노�s just lidocaine going in through one of your glands in your neck. You get two shots. It맥스카지노�s about $1,000 that you have to pay out of pocket,맥스카지노� Shiao said. He gave her two shots of a stellate ganglion block. She said insurance doesn맥스카지노�t cover the shots because it is a trial run. 맥스카지노�He gave me an injection in my right side first and then he gave me some goldfish to try, and I cried because I could taste them and they tasted good. They tasted like goldfish, and I hadn't had that in nine months,맥스카지노� she said. She says those shots changed her life, but they haven맥스카지노�t changed her eating habits quite yet. She still sticks mainly to Freddy맥스카지노�s and turkey sandwiches. 맥스카지노�I think it's a lot of anxiety and problems with me not wanting to try food because I've been scared for so long,맥스카지노� Shiao said. 맥스카지노�So, hopefully, just with time, I'll be able to be able to eat food without being afraid and be able to expand to not just Freddy's.맥스카지노�She said she hopes her story will help other people experiencing symptoms of long COVID-19 realize what options are out there, so they don맥스카지노�t have to go through what she did for so long.