He's one of at least 539 Canadians who have contracted monkeypox in the past two months. Feeling pain and exhaustion, he also faced a lack of support.
That’s the first thing Len Tooley remembers of the signs that he might be sick.
Tooley says he’s spent any down time — when not exhausted — to create a website with information about his experience and what care has worked. He’s spent hours pouring everything he knows about the illness into the siteTooley was vaccinated at a Toronto bathhouse clinic. It’s likely he had already been infected, he now realizes.When his work meetings are done by late afternoon, he finds himself collapsing on the couch and sleeping for up to six hours into the evening.
According to Toronto Public Health, monkeypox is currently spread mostly through sexual contact and it does not spread as easily as COVID-19. The lineup at Steamworks was “unbelievably long” and Tooley received his vaccine after more than three hours of waiting. He’s confident he was infected through sexual contact, though he contacted other partners and none of them said they’d been infected, says Tooley.
“The first week was not only me doing that to myself but my friend would come over, and we would spend an hour doing pox care with him as well.”
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