Covid-19 is Changing My Relationship with My Body

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My months-long struggle with ‘long-haul’ Covid-19 has changed my body in more ways than I can measure or count. I don’t know if or when I will have a ‘normal’ pulse, normal blood pressure, normal breathing, normal energy, or normal periods again. There is one aspect of ‘normal’ that I have no desire to return to, though: ‘normal’ body image.