Long COVID - Plush Stuffed Animal tie dye A perpetual symbol of shedding

A perpetual symbol of shedding your skin to become something new

revealing its title like a magic incantation

Lightning bolt on the head for thunderclap headache

the red blood cells become rigid and take on a crescent or "sickle" shape

no matter how zigzagged or delightfully off-track it may become

Long COVID - Plush Stuffed Animal tie dye A perpetual symbol of sheddingSome illnesses leave when they're supposed to. This one didn't. The Long COVID Plushie Dreadful is for the people living in the long after, the ones managing a body that kept the symptoms long past the part where everyone else moved on. Every detail is a little piece of that experience. The patchwork coat for the complicated, mismatched framework of symptoms (and the days spent feeling under the weather, or flat out bedridden). The cozy awareness