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The great unmasking (and why I'm moving on)
Plus, the Antidote #30: long COVID and (the body, children, vaccines, finances), and that steaming pile of dung known as American healthcare
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Can you control your health?
No. But in some ways, yes. But also? No.
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What a world: when natural disaster and disability intersect
Plus, The Antidote #32: long COVIDing while Black, ME/CFS research, physicians for and against Gaza, and...Girl Scout cookies!
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The Tonic goes on hiatus
Plus, the Antidote #52: COVID's ongoing toll, women's health myths, lots of fighting back (hell yeah), and blinding headlights
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I lost a great doctor
Plus, the Tonic goes paid! And the Antidote #35: spoonie travel, dementia prevention, and pre-"diabeetus"
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How far I've come
A recovery retrospective. Plus, The Antidote #38: COVID-19 vaccines, peeing your pants, and traveling-while-disabled
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On tears and detachment
Plus, the Antidote #33: five years of COVID, ME/CFS crash survival, sensory overload, and...nuns!
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"Have you tried yoga?"
Please don't hate me (a.k.a. "have you tried reading my post?")
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Recovery tools, part 5
Pain/symptom reprocessing tools and an online community. Plus, the usual Antidote link roundup.
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Long haulers fight back
We were abandoned, defunded, and within hours, refunded. Plus, more tears and detachment, and the Antidote #34.
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Long COVID in pictures
The first two years of my four-year journey
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The gift of getting to age
Plus, The Antidote #32: the U.S. tries to erase long COVID, trans, and Black and brown folks. I don't know how else to classify this. On a more positive…
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