{"id":1539,"date":"2021-03-23T14:00:07","date_gmt":"2021-03-23T21:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/allocare.caredx.com\/?p=1539"},"modified":"2022-08-16T14:14:13","modified_gmt":"2022-08-16T21:14:13","slug":"managing-anxiety-as-a-transplant-patient-in-a-covid-19-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/indexphp\/2021\/03\/23\/managing-anxiety-as-a-transplant-patient-in-a-covid-19-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Managing Anxiety as a Transplant Patient in a COVID-19 World"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"simplefavorite-button has-count loading\" data-postid=\"1539\" data-siteid=\"1\" data-groupid=\"1\" data-favoritecount=\"0\" style=\"\">Loading<span class=\"sf-icon-spinner-wrapper\"><i class=\"sf-icon-spinner\"><\/i><\/span><\/span>\n<p>Transplant recipients never needed a COVID-19 pandemic to be anxious about infections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Long before the pandemic, living with a transplanted&nbsp;organ had its own caution, stress, and&nbsp;anxiety about illness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Throw social isolation into the mix and your anxiety is only made worse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Social Distancing\u2019s Impact on Transplant Recipients Mental Health<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Isabel Stenzel Byrnes has lived 16 years with a double-lung transplant. Byrnes is a licensed social worker and grief counselor from California who says she started to feel the effects of social isolation about two months into the pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI was starting to really find myself in a slump, and missing the energy shared with human beings,\u201d said Byrnes, who copes by taking socially distanced walks with people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One positive aspect of life during COVID-19 is that today we have computers, tablets, and Smartphones, which can be useful resources to visually and auditorily connect transplant recipients with their doctors, nurses, psychiatrists, social workers, colleagues, and friends.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read the full article, <a href=\"https:\/\/caredx.com\/patients-and-caregivers\/our-transplant-journeys\/managing-anxiety-as-a-transplant-patient-in-a-covid-19-world\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<span class=\"simplefavorite-button has-count loading\" data-postid=\"1539\" data-siteid=\"1\" data-groupid=\"1\" data-favoritecount=\"0\" style=\"\">Loading<span class=\"sf-icon-spinner-wrapper\"><i class=\"sf-icon-spinner\"><\/i><\/span><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Loading Transplant recipients never needed a COVID-19 pandemic to be anxious about infections. Long before the pandemic, living with a transplanted&nbsp;organ had its own caution, stress, and&nbsp;anxiety about illness. 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