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Conversations About Long COVID: Part 3
Welcome to the third installment in a series of conversations around long COVID. The aim is to elevate the experiences, challenges, and triumphs of those living with long COVID. I want those with long COVID to feel less alone in their journey back to health — and to provide a window into the day-to-day for those who don’t have it, so they might better support anyone in their life who is struggling with this evolving, isolating, oftentimes devastating illness.
For this installment, I spoke with Will Shults, a college student at Hope College, in Holland, Michigan.
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STACY: It’s nice to meet you, Will! Can you tell me a little about yourself?
WILL: Nice to meet you, too. Well, I’m in my second year at Hope. I’m a Poli-Sci major with minors in sociology and American ethnic studies, on a pre-law track. So that’s the plan. I played three sports in high school. I help coach lacrosse. I spend a lot of time watching sports.
STACY: When was your initial COVID infection in all of that?
WILL: So I’ve had COVID three times. The first time was right as school was shutting down for the first time — in 2020. So very early on. It was pretty bad that time, and that was before we really knew much about COVID.
