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this is what long covid feels like [CW: body horror illustration, occasional art nudity]

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long covid

Symptom: Guilt that a treatment is working.

2025-7-17

2025_7_14 They asked how many migraines

2025_6_22 my new medication has been recharging, but I also have big joint pain.

Treatment: Migraine Management

2025_6_28 It’s my birthday, but I now view time by different measures

2025_06_27 Birthday Party Invite TO: You!

Symptom: it feels like Cranial Pressure?

025_6_19 Arthralgia and post-exertional aches

2025_6_18 Waking up with a migraine

2025_5 and 2025_6 don’t be afraid (to) begin again again

2025_6_9 Today I am happy–happy!!!–to have only two pain places.

Symptom: Headache

Symptom: the repeated retractions of hope

Emergency Copay: “$50”

See illmarks in Tokyo!

2025_5_7 Atypical behind-eyeballs pain?

2025_5_6 Eternal Suffering of the Mast Cell

Long Covid Art Exhibit in Colorado!

[CW: suicide reference] 2025_3_31 My psychiatrist said

2025_March/April Recap

2025-2-20 thru 2025-4-30 too sick to draw

Treatment: The ER’s Embrace

2025_2_20 Before all of this / Now

2025-2-12 Starting imatinib for resistant mast cell symptoms.

Symptom: Derealization

2025_2_6 My body no longer tolerates stress well, and US pol is very stressful

2025-2-10 Acute Stress Response

Symptom: Disconnection

025-1-22: Fire & Ice

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