Stories of COVID-19: Uncertain Future

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🗓️ 8 October 2021

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

This week, we conclude our final Stories of COVID-19 series with two stories about the lasting impacts of the pandemic. Both of these stories ask: Where do we go from here?

Part 1: Months after Howard Lieberman contracts COVID-19 on a business trip in March 2020, he continues to suffer from symptoms of the virus.

Part 2: When Monica drops off her fiancé, who has been suffering from shortness of breath, at the hospital, she doesn’t know it’s the last time she’ll see him alive.

Nationally known storyteller Howard Lieberman moved from Brooklyn to bucolic but shockingly Republican Stillwater MN in 1990. His jaded yet surprisingly tender performance style has made him a favorite on the national and, thanks to Zoom, global storytelling scene. Howard is a member of the Board of Directors of the National Storytelling Network.

Monica is a trainer, higher education educator, an instructional designer, and a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion facilitator with more than 20 years experience. She works for the University of Michigan as an instructional designer and DEI educator. She is a proud graduate of both Wayne State University as well as Central Michigan University where she obtained both a Bachelor’s Degree in Journalism and a Master’s Degree in Education. Monica loved to dance, listen to music, travel the Caribbean, and watch television until, that is, her fiancé died of Covid-19 in April...here is her story.

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0:00.0	Hi everybody.
0:13.8	Welcome to the final episode of the Story Cliders of Stories of COVID-19 series.
0:19.4	This week, we're concluding our series with two stories
0:22.8	about the lasting impacts of the pandemic. Both of these stories ask, where do we go from here?
0:30.1	Before we jump in, I want to let everyone know at the start that these stories might be hard to
0:34.9	listen to for some, in particular the second story this week.
0:39.0	The first is from someone suffering from long-haul COVID and the second from someone who lost a loved one to this virus.
0:46.4	We're very grateful to these storytellers for being willing to share these experiences with us,
0:51.2	even as they're still suffering, as so many around the world still are
0:54.6	as a result of this pandemic. So we, at StoryCliter, invite you to bear witness to these
1:00.5	experiences that they've shared with us. Our first story today is from Howard Lieberman. It was
1:06.1	recorded in April 2021 at his home in Minnesota.
1:17.5	Thank you. April 2021 at his home in Minnesota. I don't know why or when I became Dr. Lieberman.
1:22.5	I'm not really a doctor, and I don't play one on TV.
1:27.4	But ever since I was a young child, people
1:29.8	have referred to me as Dr. Lieberman and friends, relatives, neighbors, dangers, sometimes
1:36.0	at the coffee shop, will say, Howard, this is what I'm feeling. What's wrong with me? And rather
1:42.5	than send them to a real licensed doctor, I tell them,
1:46.3	and I offer my advice. However, Dr. Lieberman isn't always right. It's March 2020.
1:58.6	I'm starting to hear about COVID, this new disease that's spreading, and I don't know much about it, but being Dr. Lieberman, I read up about it.
2:09.6	So when people ask me, I'll know what to say. I was asked to go on one more business trip from Minneapolis to Kansas City to interview
2:20.9	someone for a position.
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