Still Moving
~ a memoir of the first 3 years of Long Covid ~
In late 2019, Skyeris fell ill with a strange respiratory illness. As someone with a long history of respiratory ailments, she was puzzled by the intensity of what she concluded must be a bad flu. Except that in the new year, the illness morphed into raging aggravation of her pre-existing chronic illness, along with unnerving brain fog, disorientation, and profound exhaustion.
Only after the pandemic began did she understand the source of her acute illness. Several more months passed before she had any idea of the larger implications of Long Covid. In those fiery collective years, she sequestered herself as much as possible, emotionally most of all.
From this journey both collective and isolated, unfolding all over the world and yet mostly at home, she shares the steady despair and rare triumphs. Through screens, in her own body, or anywhere else, she traverses the intensity of the pandemic, but most profoundly the labyrinth of the heart.
Skyeris reads from Still Moving on Episode 113
of the Long Covid Podcast:
Available wherever/however you listen to podcasts!
Excerpt from an interview with Indie Reader:
“You can be an author in any way that you want. There are a ton of courses and classes and coaching for writers, many of them online. AND none of that is required. You can write and publish an entire book without having someone guiding every step. I did.”
“This is a beautifully honest and thought-provoking account of the physical and mental struggles of living with a long term chronic illness such as Long Covid; the uncertainty for the future, the feeling of being isolated from the world, and the sheer depths to which we can fall whilst suffering. This memoir embraces and accepts all of the dark, and yet still allows the light to shine through.”
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Still Moving is on the shelf at Charis Books & More!
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“Sensitive and revealing…Skyeris’ writing is clear, authentic, and deeply human throughout, often expressing her ideas and reactions in emotionally charged sentences that convey the intensity and confusion of the pandemic era.A searing, deeply personal memoir of chronic illness.”
“Still Moving makes a powerful case for facing uncomfortable truths when few traces of the COVID era have made it to popular culture. “Self-help,” diagnostic, and other kinds of books about Long Covid are entering a market that is struggling against the world’s collective decision to push the pandemic out of sight and out of mind. Skyeris connects this to a long history of dismissal and deliberate blindness to other forms of disability and chronic illnesses. The author explores every facet of the world’s reaction to the disease and chronic sufferers, taking on toxic positivity as well as general discomfort towards a problem that seems to have no end in sight.
A poetic memoir, Still Moving documents Skyeris’s struggles with Long Covid, tackling the difficult subjects of disability, ideation, and depression with sensitivity and grace. It provides valuable insight on how to support loved ones suffering from all kinds of chronic illnesses.”
book cover design by Hazel Lam
photos by Emerald Dove Photography