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Uneasy Peace

Two years in, I find moments of gratitude and happiness between Long COVID crashes

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Julia Doubleday
Dec 08, 2025
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I’ve had Long COVID for over two years now, and I’ve been homebound for well over a year.

No miraculous recoveries for me. Nor the slow, day-by-day improvement either. If anything, I seem to have gotten worse with time; November was a particularly bad month for me. My step count was egregiously low, hovering around 320 per day after a better September and October had me between 500-600 steps daily.

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