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Hannah remembers pretty clearly. It was a Wednesday. The first time she realized something

wasn't right. So I remember feeling extremely scatterbrained. I was just kind of wandering around

my apartment. I was getting distracted very easily. Hannah Davis is 32. She lives in Brooklyn.

Later that day she got a text from a friend about doing a video chat. Nothing too complicated.

But Hannah realized she couldn't totally process the language in the text message.

But I didn't think too much of it. I was just like, oh, that's weird. I must be tired or something.

And then about an hour later I had an elevated fever of just 99.2.

And that was my first kind of realization that something might be wrong.

That was March 25th.

79 days later, something is still very wrong. Give me a kind of a rundown of your symptoms.

Like if you want, you can tell me them like as they showed up.

Sure. So one of my biggest symptoms is actually memory loss. So I probably can't tell you

them as they progressed.

Over the course of the last two plus months, Hannah's forgotten her own partner's name,

forgotten food on the stove. I had started a fire in my kitchen and I'm in a very small apartment.

So it's not like, you know, I get something to easily forget.

She's dealt with waves of intense exhaustion.

Just like nothing I've ever felt before.

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