An Overzealous Immune System Meets a Poke Meant to Provoke

My experience with the COVID vaccine and autoimmunity

Sara Barnes
chronic-ally
Published in
5 min readApr 10, 2021

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Photo by Ivan Diaz on Unsplash

My immune system doesn’t like me.

That’s what autoimmunity boils down to. Instead of only attacking the things that don’t belong in your body and can make you sick, those of us with autoimmune disease get the bonus action of our immune systems…

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Sara Barnes
chronic-ally

Homeschooling mother of three. Raising my family abroad. Lover of strong coffee and a good pun.