Category: Advocacy

The Price of Reinfection

My son started sneezing, coughing, and had a runny nose, again…

I kept my kids home for the 2020-2021 school year with the uncertainty of COVID. My motto has always been better safe than sorry and we have family who are considered very high risk.

But despite our restricted contact with the outside world, our family got COVID in the Fall of 2020. And before I even knew that Long Covid was an alternative to recovery, I was experiencing bizarre symptoms that made me scared that something was very very wrong with my heart.

After many doctors, specialists, and testing, I was diagnosed as a Covid Long Hauler. 

The Lie in Returning to Normal

Privilege as Policy Hurts Everyone Remember when we were doing “we’re in this together” sidewalk chalk and cheering for healthcare workers every evening? I think I had this hope that we really were “in this together.” I had this desperate optimism that this would be a turning point, that finally people would understand a little […]