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this is what long covid feels like [CW: illness, body horror illustration]

Friends & Lovers: Kelly Marine

 

Kelly Marine sits in her wheelchair resting her head in her hand. She makes weary eye contact with the viewer, despite her bright colored 70s inspired outfit, pink-dyed hair tips, cute nails, glasses, and fashionable red boots, she's exhausted and underweight. The image was drawn from reference of her in a medical exam room. Behind her is a torn muscle, a bird silhouette, a kidney, and ghostlike shapes.

Kelly Marine doesn’t know how to warn people that despite previous ME/CFS from H1N1, that “Long Covid prevents me from eating PIZZA or SLEEPING WELL EVER.” Kelly “Can cope, but…”

I am expanding this blog to do additional symptom visualizations/portraits of others in the post-viral illness community, called Friends & Lovers. Thank you so much to Kelly for being my first volunteer!

If you have Long Covid, ME/CFS, &/or other post-viral illness and would like to share your story, please read the 3 quick steps here!

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