Infectious Diseases & Recovery

The books in this collection gather first-hand accounts of infections that reshape a life for months or years: COVID-19 and the fatigue that lingers long after the test goes negative, sepsis and the disorientation of an intensive care stay, tuberculosis treatment that runs for the better part of a year, and shingles pain that outstays the rash. Others follow hepatitis C and life with HIV, including people taking PrEP to stay negative and people who have managed a diagnosis for decades.

There are shorter, sharper illnesses here too — norovirus, glandular fever, MRSA picked up in hospital, and parasitic infections that took months to identify — alongside candid accounts of vaccination, from measles to HPV and COVID jabs. Every ebook holds fifty separate voices, so you get the range of how people actually respond rather than one tidy version of events. They are written for patients, and for the partners, parents and friends who sat through it beside them.

Where to start

• COVID Cleared: Coronavirus Recovery Stories — if the infection has passed but you still do not feel like yourself
• Sepsis Survivors: ICU Recovery Stories — for families making sense of an ICU admission and the months after it
• TB or Not TB: Tuberculosis Recovery Stories — newly diagnosed and facing a long treatment course
• Positive Living: HIV Management Stories — the long view: work, relationships and telling people
• Nerve Racked: Shingles Recovery Stories — when the rash has gone and the nerve pain has not
• Mono and Moving On: Recovery Stories — slow recoveries and going back to school or work too soon