Lisa in Indiana

10/27/21 • 100 min

Episode 8. Lisa in Indiana
Lisa from Indiana shares her story of losing her dad to COVID in March of 2021. We talk about so much in this episode and it's a long one, but there was no part of it I wanted to cut out. Lisa had to rehome her dad's dogs, take care of her mother, make the medical decisions for her father's care while he was in the hospital, and she had to decide when to turn off his life-support. As she says in this episode, her dad was her person. And it's clear from every word Lisa says that she was her dad's person right back.
This episode does include some talk that may be triggering, including medical descriptions of hospital procedure, how a person changes while they are in a medical coma and also some discussion about how hard it is to continue to want to live when someone you lost is gone.
Lisa mentions how she created an Instagram account to talk about her grief. You can find that at https://www.instagram.com/adaughter.survivinggrief.
Lisa also talks about the website whowelostusa.org and how you can submit your loved ones story there. She also mentions Rami's Heart COVID-19 Memorial. You can follow that memorial on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Covid19MemorialRamisheart/
Lisa's story about her dad was featured in her local news along with information on the InAmerica flags installation. You can view that here.
For context on this interview and the ever-changing pandemic, we recorded this episode on September 8, 2021.

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Lauren in New Jersey

Episode 7. Lauren in New Jersey
When I started this podcast, I was angry that my mom died in a COVID outbreak in her nursing home. I was so focused on that that I didn't think about the people who worked there. Thank goodness for Lauren who reached out to me to tell her mom's story.
Lauren's mom was a CNA in a nursing home in Connecticut. When the pandemic started their family decided to all isolate so that Lauren's mom could go into her work and know she was doing her best to keep the residents she worked with safe. Lauren and her mom sacrificed so much time with each other. They sacrificed holidays and birthdays and hugs and in November of 2020 Lauren's mom was exposed again to COVID, but this time she tested positive. She passed away on December 2, 2020.
Lauren's story is a powerful one of love, sacrifice and loss. But there is hope here for all of us as we see another side to this pandemic.
For context on this interview and the ever-changing pandemic, we recorded this episode on July 2, 2021.

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Jill in Los Angeles

Episode 9. Jill in Los Angeles
Jill lost her father to COVID in April 2020 near the beginning of the pandemic. Jill lives in Los Angeles and her father lived in Chicago. He was very active in the local community and her family thinks that he was probably exposed to COVID quite early before there were any real protocols in place. Jill's dad developed COVID pneumonia and from the moment he went into the hospital in March until the day he passed away he was on a ventilator.
Jill talks about her experience losing her dad from a distance and talking to her dad and her family via Facetime while he was in the hospital just hoping he could hear them. She talks about her grief and how it doesn't yet seem really real to her that her dad is gone. Even a year and a half later. We also talk about how grief has changed Jill and made her more open to being there for others in their trying times, when before she might have shied away. I can completely relate to that feeling, too, so we explore that and how grief has changed us.
Jill mentions the COVID Connections group. You can find out more about those weekly meetings at at COVID Survivors for Change.
https://covidsurvivorsforchange.org/survivor-resources/
For context on this interview and the ever-changing pandemic, we recorded this episode on September 22, 2021.

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