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My sister, Jennifer, who is mentally handicapped and has cerebral palsy lost her fight with COVID-19. She was someone who extruded love to everyone that she was around. She was put in the hospital on Dec 31st and was put a on ventilator the beginning of January. She lost her battle this morning after deciding it was best to take her off the ventilator. It was quick and she is no longer suffering.

My wonderful father, Jose Ramudo, died from COVID 19 on 11/27/2020 after a 10 day battle. He still had so many years left. My family is grieving the loss of such a great father, husband, brother, uncle, but most importantly, grandpa. He is greatly loved and missed.

First my daughter youngest daughter went online to study dance in her college program, next our oldest daughter lost her job due to COVID-19, then my nephew and his young family including two children tested positive, then my father died from COVID just 4 days after testing positive and most recently my good friend reported that at a healthy 39 years old, she now must have surgery to place a stent in her heart after COVID left her heart valve damaged. Covid-19 has prevented our family from gathering to honor our father, from grieving together, from going to school. It has been an exhausting, heartbreaking, and emotional year. I miss my dad dearly. It feels so surreal to be attached to this footnote in history.

My husband got COVID-19 on November 8. He did well for about 2 weeks. On November 19th he was admitted to the hospital. From there it was a battle for him. November 24th he was incubated. For about 2 weeks he stayed ventilated. He beat covid and I got to see him. He passed away on December 23. Just 4 days after he got the trach in place. We have no idea what happened but his body just started to shut down. Andrew was only 29. He had a lot of life left him. We had so many plans that diminished. I was one of the lucky ones that got to say goodbye to my husband but for many widow/widowers they were not.

Myself and my 16 year old survived COVID-19, but my husband of 19 years was not so lucky. He died 3 days before Christmas after a 5 week battle trying to fight. I continue to have lung and heart issues because of the virus. We also have 2 other children and a 7 month old grandson. Our family will never be the same again. Covid took our rock, our biggest supporter, and the love of my life. My children lost the best father a child could ask for.

I lost my husband and best friend to COVID-19 in May 11, 2020. He was 31. We didn’t have life insurance, which we found out after his death. He was the family breadwinner. He didn’t just take care of me and our kids, he took care of everyone in his family. My husband was exceptional and I hate that he died alone because of this awful virus.

It was a pretty normal Tuesday morning, 12/15/2020 and my mother called me – she said she was having horrible pains could I come over. I drove to her nearby house and sure enough she needed to go to the hospital. That entire day was a fiasco and the communication from the hospital was extremely poor. (It is important to note here that on Thursday of the previous week she took a COVID test and Monday received the negative results, she was also again tested in the ER on 12/15 and received negative results.) I did found out my mom was going to have emergency surgery that evening. (That whole day was a mess with communication with hospital and consent forms.) My mom had the surgery and I was able to visit her the next day. Surgery seemed to go well and she seemed pretty good the next day. I was literally skipping out of the hospital when I left because I was so happy how well it all went. Due to visiting policies, I was not able to go back to see her until Saturday. On Saturday, she just didn’t seem as awake and alert as she was on Wednesday. She said she just didn’t feel good. My sister went on Sunday and called me to say Mom just doesn’t seem like she feels well. I visited on Monday and she was not feeling well at all, we kept telling the hospital staff – they said it was just the hospital stay – it makes you that way. The next day she was sent home in late afternoon. I stayed with her all day Wednesday 12/23/2020 – she did not feel well. was super tired and didn’t have an appetite. By evening she spiked a high fever – high enough that I became concerned and called her surgeon. Her surgery site looked fine so we took more tylenol and tried to rest. My poor mother moaned and groaned all night long in misery. Finally in the morning she was so sick I knew we were going to have to go back to the hospital – we thought maybe a UTI. I made a few calls to doctors and they said to take her into ER. Not long after I dropped her off at the ER I received a call from my sister she tested positive for COVID-19. On January 8, 2021 my mother lost her battle with the nasty virus and passed away. We are all devastated, in shock, traumatized and horribly heartbroken over the loss of our mother.

He was diagnosed with Pneumonia but his test results were negative. He was sent home with a prescription for his medication. Taking his medication as indicated his breathing got worse. Sunday morning June 28th and I drove him back to the ER. I gave him a kiss on his forehead and he cried, I will never forget those tears. I now ask myself why did I leave him behind? That was the last day I saw him, June 28th. Sadly he passed away July 10th, 2020 exactly a week away from his 58th birthday. Since I was COVID-19 positive, I was not allowed in the hospital and I was not allowed at the funeral home so my only alternative was to have him cremated. His unexpected death has changed my life tremendously. I miss him so much.

I lost my father to COVID-19 while he was visiting out of country when COVID-19 hit. He decided to weight it out until it was safe to travel but unfortunately got exposed at a funeral of his brother. By the time he was tested and found a hospital that would take him, it was too late he spent his last 8 weeks in a hospital in a medical induced coma. He had been affected to much and had covid related issues and never fully recovered and continued to get worse until his heart gave out. We were lucky to come up with nearly $43,000.00 to pay for the 1st 6 days of treatment and his health care from here took over to help with all his care. I am now trying to get reimbursed as we owe the money. We haven’t been able to give him an honest funeral or private service to honor his life because we cant afford it. We did bring him home in an urn.

My brother was admitted into a nursing home facility. Residing for 5 months and contracted Covid-19. My brother was so vulnerable as he also suffered from mental illness. He fought Covid-19 for 41 days, he was intubated on day 4. It was the hardest watching him deteriorate over FaceTime and say our final goodbyes.