Like so many others in the chronic illness community, I've been super anxious about going anywhere in public. Especially as everything is opening & mask mandates are dropped (prematurely, if you ask me), there's the legitimate fear that the unmasked all around us may be unvaccinated, exposed, even carriers of the coronavirus, and we the immunocompromised are at even greater risk.
At the same time, there's the hope & the longing to get back out into the world. We don't want to live like this, as hermits, going nowhere but to our medical appointments. We want to see our loved ones, our friends, our families. We want to go out, to socialize, to run errands, to just … be.
