Chimére L. Sweeney has been living with Long COVID for four years now. In New York, COVID was not addressed until the middle of February 2020. Sweeney was a teacher for several years in Baltimore at that time. She now lives in Poughkeepsie, NY.
“Teaching my students before COVID was exhilarating and exciting. After five years, I finally felt as if I was teaching my beautiful, brilliant students about tools for wise observation and using what they see to curate their own liberation,” she said.
Her very last day as a teacher in the classroom was March 13, 2020, and it is a day that will always be seared in her brain because it was the last day she felt connected to a traditional and accepted career.
“I felt abandoned by my body: as if every day, I was waking up in someone else’s body and barely thinking with their mind. I went from being healthy with mild eczema and allergies to not remembering my first and last name, a burning scalp, tongue, and eyes, my vision became impaired, muscular and joint weakness, and facial pain. There was so much pain, everywhere, all the time,” she added.
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