The Pandemic Mountain Range Analogy
I’m reinfected 2 years almost to-the-day, and while I made this to distract myself from my body, I also made it because this simple...
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- Mar 10, 2022
- 2 min
My 2 Year COVID Anniversary
On this day 2 years ago, I became symptomatic. I will never know who is responsible for my infection, but it’s for the best that I’ll...
- Feb 24, 2022
- 2 min
Chronic Illness Patients Are Canaries in the Coal Mine
“If you’re a canary then I’m a canary!” That’s what Gosling said to McAdams in The Notebook right?🤪 But all joking aside, with Long...
- Feb 21, 2022
- 2 min
Patience Prevents Patients
COVID is not a respiratory virus: it’s a vascular disease caused by a respiratory virus. “Learning to live with” a highly transmissible,...
- Feb 16, 2022
- 2 min
Humanity's Lost the Plot (Again)
Humanity is at a fork in road: one that’s wholly manmade and a product of impatience, unchecked privilege, and a broken moral compass,...
- Feb 12, 2022
- 2 min
Stop Sugar-Coating Long COVID
Ironically, many #longhaulers find themselves in symptom flares due to sugar intake (don’t even get me started about the new onset...
- Feb 7, 2022
- 2 min
Herpetic Reactivations and Long COVID
I share this as a follow-on to my last post about #LongCovid and blood work, and the Do you know how when you’re deeply invested in...
- Jan 22, 2022
- 3 min
Long COVID Diagnostic Tests
I created this for the multi-millions with #LongCovid and the millions more that are just beginning to experience new health issues...
- Jan 14, 2022
- 2 min
COVID is an Airborne Vascular Disease / Long COVID is a Likely Autoimmune Disorder
While the @cdcgov still classifies #covid as a respiratory disease on its site, this belief is no longer deemed correct by the global...
- Jan 12, 2022
- 2 min
The Disabled Are Ahead of the Times
The greatest human disability is a belief that one has a more valuable ability than another. That one mind is more powerful than another...
- Jan 10, 2022
- 2 min
The CDC Is Failing Millions (if Not All Americans)
Dr. Walensky and @cdcgov: Gerard John Schaefer got into law enforcement because he too had a calling, and then he murdered many. Your...
- Jan 9, 2022
- 2 min
The CDC Stands For...
I’m speaking as an American, as a patient on month 22 of #LongCovid now #disabled due to this new #chronicillness, and as a person who...
- Dec 28, 2021
- 2 min
Long COVID Recap: 2021
This year has been tough on all, and for #LongCovid patients, also known as #LongHaulers, it’s been a perpetual nightmare…only seeing...
- Dec 24, 2021
- 2 min
Grief Amongst the Holidays
This holiday season I’m (like many) battling grief. The loss of my cherished Uncle George yesterday. The loss of my physical and at-times...
- Dec 21, 2021
- 2 min
What's Compassion?
If you boil down the resistance to vaccines (outside of medical reasons), masking, our internalized ableism, and our unchecked privilege...
- Dec 18, 2021
- 2 min
The Long COVID Reality
I shouldn’t have to share this, but society hasn’t evolved compassionately enough for the need to not exist (and goodness have I and many...
- Dec 14, 2021
- 2 min
Long COVID Snowball Analogy
PSA: if you’ve been vaccinated and had any side effect that made you feel rough for more than a day, you can relate to #LongCovid and...
- Dec 11, 2021
- 1 min
Mild Acute COVID Most Commonly Results in Long COVID
Cue the “I’m fu$!&ing Sick of It” audio clip…on loop. And cue the “we’re trying to save YOU from becoming US” cries of the entire...
- Dec 5, 2021
- 2 min
My Life is Worth More Than a Mask
Healthy family and friends: I implore you to read each slide with an open heart, receptive to a perspective that you may not have invited...
- Nov 18, 2021
- 2 min
STAT Summit 2021: Long COVID Session
Yesterday I spoke at the STAT Summit, supporting the sole session relating to #LongCovid. I was invited as the first US patient to...
- Nov 10, 2021
- 2 min
Lost at Sea With Long COVID
I sit here feeling a mix of emotions regarding the current state of society, the still active pandemic, and the ways in which my body and...
- Oct 24, 2021
- 2 min
Long COVID is Vascular
In February of last year I made a graphic about the vascular nature of #covid (scroll my feed to see it🩸), and while the graphic came a...
- Oct 15, 2021
- 2 min
Long COVID is a Nightmare
The spookiest thing you hear when you become chronically ill is the ignorant mutterings of victim blamers unable to cope with the reality...
- Sep 28, 2021
- 2 min
This is How Everyone Can Help Long Haulers
I’m momentarily breaking hiatus to say that while a lot has been going on with my health, with that update coming soon, and while *A LOT*...
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