For Ann Norton simple things like going for a walk are now a struggle.
The county councillor from Ennis tested positive for the coronavirus in April. But five months on she still has issues. "I have a constant headache", she says.
'I have constant tiredness, and can't shake it. I find that very difficult because I'd be very busy. I'd be involved in a lot of things. and now I find I want to sleep. I need to sleep. People ring me and say Ann are you in bed? And I'd say no, no, not at all. But sure I would be."
Over the last ten years she has been very active. She has completed five marathons and regularly got up at 6am every day for training. She's also climbed Kilamanjaro. But now it is a different story. "I walk to the postbox and I'm exhausted. I need to come back and sit down", she says.
The 47-year-old says she hopes she'll get back to her former self. As a carer for her daughter, who has cerebral palsy, Ann says she has a lot of get up and go and a lot of drive.
She says she has no choice because when you have a child with a disability you have to get up and get on with it.
"But at the minute it's just so hard to even think that way", she says, "because I'm so tired. Even to think straight sometimes you wonder are you saying the right thing".
She says she has a lot of living left to do. But weekends come and all she does is sleep.
She says that she can't do what she used to do and that's the part that she doesn't like and that's the part that scares her the most.
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