Making the Bed After COVID-19 Helped Me Through ‘Long-Haulers’ Syndrome

Amy Punt
9 min readNov 12, 2020
I dare you to make this bed right now.

At the writing of this, 140,000 new cases of COVID-19 occur each day in the U.S. This is my story.

I’m tired. I don’t want to. Do it anyway. Who’s with me? Let’s make the bed. There, it’s done. Now what? Iron a shirt? Take a shower? Make some tea? God, anything but sit down to write. Every morning it’s a tug-of-war and by nightfall, well…

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Amy Punt

Writing about Personal Growth, Trauma, Recovery and the cultural moments that reflect our hidden traumas.