Bone Broth with Bones to Pick...

Sipping. Ice-packing. But the most fun of them all: bone-pickin'. Keystone Symposia's recent Long Covid meeting featured no real racial diversity or innovation.

Thursday, August 21, 2025

Photo: I Got a Bone to Pick. Photo Description: A Black women with a blonde shirt faded haircut with a right-side part is wearing a cream sweater-shirt with her pointer and middle fingers on both hands indicating that she is making a point. Photo Credit: Jacob Wackerhausen

Bone Brothin’ and Ice-Packin’

I haven’t had a taste for much food (and no, it ain’t the Wegovy). But to keep my strength, I have been drinking bone broth. And it has been curing more than my soul. I added a little Himalayan salt for good measure and hydration.

I am Long Covid PMSing this week so my throat is sore, body achy, eyes dry, face is blotchy, and my breasts feel like two cinderblocks fighting under this nightshirt. I’m peeing every hour on the hour. I’ve never wanted to get rid of my uterus and the hormones attached to it so fast.

Ever since receiving dental work last Monday, the left side of my face has been stinging with pain. I’ve had migraines every day with the muscles around my ey…