I have been narcoleptic since high school. I was only diagnosed with it 8 years ago (I am ~40), so I actually lived with it for around ~15 years undiagnosed. In that time, I graduated high school, college, and went into a career.
So, with the preliminaries out of the way, and in a effort to contribute to the AMA comm:
My mom still has problems with brain fog and her sense of taste after having COVID.
Wow, that sounds like the disease you have when something’s wrong with your brain and they don’t know what.