Stairs are a challenge for Carrie MacKay, the Langley woman who has been chronicling her battle with COVID-19 in a series of posts on her .

MacKay shared a video to show the effort it takes her just to go downstairs.

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She乌鸦传媒檚 been told it could be another three months to a year before she has recovered.

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MacKay is hoping to beat the odds so she can resume kayaking with her dog, as well as hiking, biking, by the summer.

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Friends set up a GoFundMe page, 乌鸦传媒溛谘淮�媒� to help with bills and food, which MacKay called 乌鸦传媒渟uper awesome.乌鸦传媒�

People have been following her story across Canada and in the U.S., she discovered.

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Her advice: 乌鸦传媒渘ot to wait at home as long as I did when my fever was so high 乌鸦传媒� and to go to the hospital if it gets really bad.乌鸦传媒�

For the physically active MacKay, 46, a graphic designer and artist who has no underlying health conditions and doesn乌鸦传媒檛 smoke, her encounter with COVID began on Jan. 22, when she began to feel unwell.

Two days later, she was diagnosed with COVID-19, and by Jan, 29, she was admitted to Langley Memorial Hospital, then transferred a few days later to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) at the Abbotsford Regional Hospital.

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In her Facebook postings, MacKay described the impact of the coronavirus, how at at times she was fighting to draw a full breath during her stay in the ICU, and finding it nearly impossible to sleep as a result.