Joshua Roman was a musical prodigy at the top of his game. Then came a debilitating chronic illness.<\/p>\n
From The New York Times<\/a><\/p>\n Joshua Roman used to be able to play cello for 10 hours a day without skipping a beat. But months after contracting Covid-19 in 2021, debilitating brain fog and extreme fatigue had him questioning whether he would ever play again.<\/p>\n It has been three and a half years since Roman was diagnosed with long Covid, and he\u2019s still adapting to his medical reality and reimagining his musical future.<\/p>\n Pam Belluck, a Times health and science reporter, spoke to Roman ahead of the release of his new album, \u201cImmunity,\u201d and she narrates this first-person account.<\/p>\n Listen to the podcast.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Joshua Roman was a musical prodigy at the top of his game. Then came a debilitating chronic illness. From The New York Times Joshua Roman used to be able to play cello for 10 hours a day without skipping a beat. But months after contracting Covid-19 in 2021, debilitating brain fog and extreme fatigue had … Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11882,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[7401,7403,7402,4010,7026],"class_list":["post-15886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-cellist","tag-covid","tag-immunity","tag-joshua-roman","tag-podcast"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15886"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15887,"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15886\/revisions\/15887"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/11882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}