Covid Finally Got Me

Loren Kantor
6 min readJan 7, 2023
Woodcut Self-Portrait of my Covid experience.

All good dramas need a compelling opening scene. Mine started with a migraine. Not an ordinary migraine like I get once or twice monthly. This was a leviathan, a pounding throbbing pulsating torment that blinded me for hours. The pain was what I imagine first-time hikers experience at 25,000 feet on Everest except I had no Sherpa to get me through.

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Loren Kantor

Loren is a writer and woodcut artist based in Los Angeles. He teaches printmaking and creative writing to kids and adults.