Shame --> Irritation --> Compassion --> Respect

And how my body has been right all along.

Early into my Long Covid journey, April of 2020, a cardiologist taped a bunch of things to me and had me jump on a treadmill for a stress test. The results? “Your heart is great! You’re just severely deconditioned.” Except I wasn’t, of course. Just a month earlier I had been running 3-5 miles a few times a week. But now my body looked like I had be…