I was diagnosed with COVID-19 for the second time in two years. This time, I had been traveling while masked and apparently still couldn’t handle being in other people’s bubbles.
After being diagnosed, flashbacks of being hospitalized last year hit hard. I remembered feeling like I couldn’t get clean enough, like I didn’t have supportive family and friends, and ultimately exhausted.
Fear and fatigue has often plagued me. After losing my mother in high school, I was told there was zero tolerance for needing more sleep and wanting to do less.
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