Giorgia
“Every healing journey is unique and we tend to compare ourselves to others. We tend to want to have the same healing journey as somebody we listened to online or somebody else’s that we’ve met, and if doesn’t look like that, if it’s not so fast, if it’s not so easy: we feel bad for ourselves. But I think that, you know, as you are healing from anything, you are healing from something that is really within you and so at some point I embraced that. And you can too.”
Giorgia Lupi's Op Ed 'My Life with Long Covid' in New York Times
Giorgia's 1374 Days of Long Covid
In this episode, we are joined by Giorgia Lupi, an award winning Italian information designer and partner at a NYC design firm Pentagram. Giorgia caught Covid in March 2020 and developed Long Covid, which worsened after vaccinations and also a reinfection in 2022.
Giorgia has painstaking recorded all of the data around her symptoms and recovery journey, which formed the basis of the incredible Op Ed for the New York Times she did, 'My Life with Long Covid' covering 1374 days of Long Covid - and becoming a celebrity in long hauler circles in the same moment!
She has since recovered a great deal and is sharing her recovery story with me in this episode. You can also find her discussing this in her recent TED Talk 'What Long Covid Taught me about Life (And Data)'.
