My Year of Rest and Relaxation

It's been a year since I contracted COVID-19 and developed Long COVID. I've had to face my worst fears, but I'm still here.

Before I ever contracted SARS-COV-2, I had already learned all I could about COVID and Long COVID. I spent my days scouring the internet for new research papers, googling scientific words I didn’t know, and listening to the stories of patients who’d been sick for a year, then two years, then three. I launched this site in late 2022, a year before my first infection, because I was angry. I was already very angry, then. And I remember telling my friends how badly I felt for those who’d been disabled by the states’ lies, by its negligence. “I’m mad now,” I’d say, laughing though it wasn’t funny, “I can’t even imagine how mad I’d be if I had Long COVID.”