Welcome to the Body Mapping Virtual Gallery!
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The original body map artwork was displayed at the Henry Ford Cancer Institute located in Detroit, Michigan. A closing reception event was held on October 2nd. View photos from the event here. Video of the event coming soon...
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Below shows an overview of all 19 body maps. Click on any body map image to view and read more about that participants' long COVID-19 journey.
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Participant 1
"My life has been negatively affected by long-COVID in more ways than I can count. I am still fighting every single day, and I am not giving up hope."
Participant 2
"It was March 3, 2021, that I was diagnosed with COVID-19. Before covid became my personal testimony, my life was in a state of recovery during a pandemic."
Participant 3
"I was a person who loved life, people, reading, seeing new things, doing new things, crafting, crocheting, games, teaching, learning, spending time with my kids and grandkids, jokes, laughing, creating."
Participant 4
"I was an active late 30's man with a wife and two children, then the pandemic and Covid-19 came to be."
Participant 7
"When the pandemic hit, I still had to go into work at the jail every day. We took precautions, but eventually I was one of many who became infected"
Participant 10
-"Before I became sick with covid-19 and later on diagnosed with long COVID I worked 2 jobs; one as nursing assistant and one as an occupancy specialist."
Participant 13
"Born in March of 1969, a petite stature female with a heart that loves to give to others, known and unknown. Oh, I did not mention germophobic since I was a pre-teen?"
Participant 16
“I am a home health care nurse who contracted COVID19 in August 2020. I know exactly when I was exposed. I was listening to heart sounds on a patient in an Assisted Living Facility when she suddenly coughed in my face and eyes."
Participant 5
"I am a mom of a 3-year-old and a newborn baby girl. It was March of 2021 when everything took a twist in life."
Participant 8
"I don’t know what will happen. Everything is unknown and unpredictable. I want to get better. I hope I do."
Participant 11
“Early March 2020, I moved with my husband and three children from London, England to Michigan. Just nine days after our move I began having all the symptoms of Covid-19."
Participant 14
"You see, I am a nurse practitioner and see this whole experience from two different perspectives. One is that of a layperson. The other is a trained medical person."
Participant 17
“My journey was storied in January when my next-door neighbor rushed his mom to the emergency. His mom was and is a DMC employee."
Participant 19
“I tested positive for Covid 19 in Dec 2020 and experienced headaches, exhaustion and low-grade fever. During the course of the virus, I passed out in the shower and my husband took me to the ER. While in the ER, it was as if I was underwater. "
Participant 6
"I'm in my Mid 40s. I have five children six grandchildren one sister and only two nieces. I've been a cook now over 20 some years. I work in the medical field as a cook which I enjoy. I cook on the side. I even cater parties."
Participant 9
"It was day two of a double shift at my job. I was the only nursing assistant to show up for work the second day on both day and afternoon shift (16hrs) due to staff calling in sick."
Participant 12
“I've been married for more than ten years. We are a blended family with seven children in total. I've worked in healthcare for almost 30 years. We all did everything we could to be safe, and then COVID came along."
Participant 15
"I felt like my brain was in a constant fog being unable to think clearly. My work was suffering and I could no longer work 40 to 50 hours a week which is what I was used to as a Nurse Practitioner."
Participant 18
“I was pretty active before I got sick. I was working part time at a job I loved and moving towards retirement. We loved the outdoors, so we camped a lot and spent much of our time with family."