PERSONAL ESSAY

Do I Have Long COVID?

What is wrong with me….

Published in

Age of Empathy

4 min readMar 13

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AI altered image of me by Christopher Robin

November 2021.

November 2021. That’s when the worst of it noticeably began to happen. It’s still crippling my life and I’m trying everything I can to keep it at bay. Gentle exercises, bioenergetic therapy, walking with a cane when I need to….

KiKi Walter

Written by KiKi Walter

Editor for

Age of Empathy

AKA "The Memoir Queen." Ki is the founder & co-publisher of The Memoirist, Age of Empathy, Black Bear, Dear KiKi, QuickTalk, The Mayhem, Songstories, and more.

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