I wear a mask whenever I go out of my house into the public. I have had Long Covid over two years and still seeing specialists to help with my wide variety of symptoms left behind after Covid’s visit in late 2020.

I have not hugged my family for years. I have not seen most of my family or many of my friends, because of a fear of catching a common cold or worse. My immune system is no longer as strong as is was. I have infections all the time because my body can’t fight or remember how to fight infections that run through everyone’s bodies.

My great-grand kids hug my long legs, as long as they do not have a cold or feel ill. I am 5’ 11”, so I get some kind of a hug, unless they are ill, and air hugs are given which make them feel loved still.

I hope they begin making some connections to what we are experiencing and ways to treat us without having to have procedures or take multiple meds to treat individual medical issues.