Category | Illness trajectory | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Sub-categories | Trajectory phases | ||||
Prodromal | Downward | Turning | Upward | Chronic | |
Category | |||||
Functional ability | “Only fourteen days after I got Giardia… I was knocked out” | “If I walked a short distance, I needed several stops” | “I gradually got worse until… bedbound” | “I have gradually started to become better” | “Now it is fifty-fifty for me, working 50%… 50% welfare benefits” |