Summer in South Carolina
12/21/22 • 102 min
Episode 38. Summer in South Carolina
In this episode, I will be talking with Summer in South Carolina. This is a powerful episode about not only COVID loss, but long COVID. Summer's husband, Robert, was in the COVID ICU for 81 days and then he was released to a rehab facility and came home in October 2020. And he was home for almost 18 months. But Robert, and Summer, struggled through his long COVID. They saw specialists and doctors who all told them to "wait and see" and so they did. Robert died on March 22, 2022 in their home of a massive heart attack brought on by complications of Long COVID. As Summer says, God gave her husband back to her only to lose him.
She has become an advocate for Long Haulers and offers help and support to everyone struggling with Long Haul in the medical system. Summer advocates for Long Haul with Covid Survivors for Change. She is part of the Yellow Heart Memorial LongHaul advocacy and she is a powerful storyteller. Her husband told her to keep telling his story and she has. They have been features on Fox News, ABC news and many other news outlets. Many of those links are in the show notes below. Lastly, we do talk about detailed medical procedures and suicide is mentioned in this episode. Know that this may be triggering for some.
Covid Survivors for Change
Yellow Heart Memorial
And here are links to just a few of the online news stories about Summer and her husband, Robert.
https://www.foxcarolina.com/2022/03/25/upstate-frontline-worker-passes-away-after-after-massive-heart-attack/
https://people.com/politics/covid-19-survivors-sign-letter-donald-trump-for-failed-leadership/
https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/19/us/young-parents-covid-deaths/index.html
For context on this interview and the ever-changing pandemic, we recorded this episode on August 17, 2022.
If you've lost a loved one to COVID and would like to share your story on the show, please send me an email. My email address is [email protected]. Or go to the website forthosewelostpodcast.com and click on contact button and you can reach me that way as well.
This show won't ever have a paid members area or episodes you have to pay to listen to, but there are expenses with hosting a podcast. If you would like to help, please support the show.
All episodes are written and produced by me and all music is used under the protection of fair use.
Our social media accounts can be found at:
Instagram
Twitter
Facebook
YouTube (work in progress for the captions)
Until next time!
Long Road Ahead by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license.
Episode 38. Summer in South Carolina
In this episode, I will be talking with Summer in South Carolina. This is a powerful episode about not only COVID loss, but long COVID. Summer's husband, Robert, was in the COVID ICU for 81 days and then he was released to a rehab facility and came home in October 2020. And he was home for almost 18 months. But Robert, and Summer, struggled through his long COVID. They saw specialists and doctors who all told them to "wait and see" and so they did. Robert died on March 22, 2022 in their home of a massive heart attack brought on by complications of Long COVID. As Summer says, God gave her husband back to her only to lose him.
She has become an advocate for Long Haulers and offers help and support to everyone struggling with Long Haul in the medical system. Summer advocates for Long Haul with Covid Survivors for Change. She is part of the Yellow Heart Memorial LongHaul advocacy and she is a powerful storyteller. Her husband told her to keep telling his story and she has. They have been features on Fox News, ABC news and many other news outlets. Many of those links are in the show notes below. Lastly, we do talk about detailed medical procedures and suicide is mentioned in this episode. Know that this may be triggering for some.
Covid Survivors for Change
Yellow Heart Memorial
And here are links to just a few of the online news stories about Summer and her husband, Robert.
https://www.foxcarolina.com/2022/03/25/upstate-frontline-worker-passes-away-after-after-massive-heart-attack/
https://people.com/politics/covid-19-survivors-sign-letter-donald-trump-for-failed-leadership/
https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/19/us/young-parents-covid-deaths/index.html
For context on this interview and the ever-changing pandemic, we recorded this episode on August 17, 2022.
If you've lost a loved one to COVID and would like to share your story on the show, please send me an email. My email address is [email protected]. Or go to the website forthosewelostpodcast.com and click on contact button and you can reach me that way as well.
This show won't ever have a paid members area or episodes you have to pay to listen to, but there are expenses with hosting a podcast. If you would like to help, please support the show.
All episodes are written and produced by me and all music is used under the protection of fair use.
Our social media accounts can be found at:
Instagram
Twitter
Facebook
YouTube (work in progress for the captions)
Until next time!
Long Road Ahead by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license.
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Melanese in Maryland
Episode 37. Melanese in Maryland
In this episode, I talk with Melanese in Maryland. Melanese lost her husband Charles Thomas, Jr. on February 28, 2021. He was admitted to the hospital with COVID in December 2020 and was there for about a week and then was released and came home. Melanese talks about his health struggles afterward and how her husband tried to push through, but he struggled with long COVID symptoms and collapsed and died in their home. Melanese has suffered a lot of significant losses in her life, but even with all that she found that the death of her husband was the rawest most emotional grief journey she has undertaken.
For context on this interview and the ever-changing pandemic, we recorded this episode on July 15, 2022.
Here are the links for this episode:
COVID Survivors for Change
The Young Widows and Widowers of COVID-19 Facebook group
InAmerica Flags installation
Melanese's Facebook page where you can contact her about her grief
www.melanesemarr.com
If you've lost a loved one to COVID and would like to share your story on the show, please send me an email. My email address is [email protected]. Or go to the website forthosewelostpodcast.com and click on contact button and you can reach me that way as well.
This show won't ever have a paid members area or episodes you have to pay to listen to, but there are expenses with hosting a podcast. If you would like to help, please support the show.
All episodes are written and produced by me and all music is used under the protection of fair use.
Our social media accounts can be found at:
Instagram
Twitter
Facebook
YouTube (work in progress for the captions)
Until next time!
Long Road Ahead by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license.
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Naj in San Francisco
Episode 39. Naj in San Francisco
In this episode, I will be talking with Naj in San Francisco. Naj lost her grandmother, Rosemary Williams, on July 29, 2020. Rosemary was one of about 13 brothers and sisters and she was the last living sibling. She and her husband moved to San Francisco from Louisiana and started their married life together. They bought a house and lived in the same community for well over 50 years. Rosemary was the center of Naj's large family circle and losing her left a hole, not only in Naj's family, but in her community, too.
Two nonprofits she mentions:
Transformational Miracles
Stand in Peace
For context on this interview and the ever-changing pandemic, we recorded this episode on August 12, 2022. And the day before August 11, was Naj's grandmother's birthday. She would have been 101 years old.
If you've lost a loved one to COVID and would like to share your story on the show, please send me an email. My email address is [email protected]. Or go to the website forthosewelostpodcast.com and click on contact button and you can reach me that way as well.
This show won't ever have a paid members area or episodes you have to pay to listen to, but there are expenses with hosting a podcast. If you would like to help, please support the show.
All episodes are written and produced by me and all music is used under the protection of fair use.
Our social media accounts can be found at:
Instagram
Twitter
Facebook
YouTube (work in progress for the captions)
Until next time!
Long Road Ahead by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license.
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