10 May, 2026

My chronic illness is not a “trip”, it’s a bad trip

Like approximately 20 million Americans, I suffer from an incurable post-acute infection syndrome called Long Covid. Some people call the long Covid experience a “journey”. I wish they would stop. I’m stuck by this, stuck with this. I feel like I’m getting nowhere. Coating my bitter pill, a chronic illness, by calling it a “journey” […]

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