{"id":199,"date":"2025-01-24T22:23:46","date_gmt":"2025-01-24T22:23:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imitone.com\/blog\/?p=199"},"modified":"2025-01-24T22:23:46","modified_gmt":"2025-01-24T22:23:46","slug":"about-our-health-hiatus-in-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/imitone.com\/blog\/index.php\/2025\/01\/24\/about-our-health-hiatus-in-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"about our health hiatus in 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Hello, singers \u2014<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve been out of commission for 12 of the last 18 months with two consecutive cases of long COVID.  This condition&#8217;s symptoms include brain fog, memory loss and &#8220;PEM&#8221;, a symptom which causes violent illness after mental or physical effort.  Another member of our small team has also been suffering from long COVID and aftereffects of an unexpected, disabling injury.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We were not prepared for a health crisis like this. imitone&#8217;s development has sustained a major setback, and I have been unable to contribute to the development of the MIDI 2.0 standard since last October. Additionally, there has been a lapse in customer support since September.  I&#8217;m working to get this caught up by the end of the month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m still in recovery, but reaching a point where I&#8217;ll be able to resume my duties part-time and begin to pick up where we left off in mid-June (when I contracted my second case of long COVID).  We are working on a major update to our VST plugins for PC and Mac OS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>On a personal note: The COVID-19 pandemic is still in full force and presents a very real threat of disability to people of all ages. Despite taking significantly more precautions than average, I contracted COVID twice: first from a housemate, then from an outdoor event (where I spent 80% of my time masked up). The typical prognosis for post-COVID syndrome is 6 to 8 months of recovery \u2014 potentially much longer if the patient is unlucky or can&#8217;t commit to a period of rest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My memories of the last year are fragmented but I know I&#8217;ve lost a lot of time. Don&#8217;t let it happen to you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2014 Evan Balster<br>lead developer, imitone<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello, singers \u2014 I&#8217;ve been out of commission for 12 of the last 18 months with two consecutive cases of long COVID. This condition&#8217;s symptoms include brain fog, memory loss and &#8220;PEM&#8221;, a symptom which causes violent illness after mental or physical effort. Another member of our small team has also been suffering from long [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/imitone.com\/blog\/index.php\/2025\/01\/24\/about-our-health-hiatus-in-2024\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"0","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devlog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imitone.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imitone.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imitone.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imitone.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imitone.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/imitone.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":201,"href":"https:\/\/imitone.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions\/201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imitone.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imitone.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imitone.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}