Covid Widows

| Gina Smallwood

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I am not a “covid widow” but this is part of our experience: 
I had to leave my deathly ill husband at the hospital alone for 12 hours because of covid rules. They tried to prevent our girls from visiting him and we could not be together as a family until the last 12 hours of his life when he was non responsive. His sister, brother, other family members, and friends could not visit. We could not bring our choice of pastor in to pray over him. He DID NOT HAVE COVID! But he was in the hospital during a covid environment. This is not political. It is a human rights issue  and health crisis. Wear your  mask – get your vaccines! I hope all non maskers and anti vaxers never have to experience not being able to be with your loved one when they need you the most. How will you deal with your guilt on top of everything else!?

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My friend Susie Zinn Breedwell wrote the post below and gave me permission to share:

As a Covid widow, I have urged everyone to get the vaccine. I can’t believe the posts saying Biden’s increase in masking and vaccines that he’s terrible and our country will not be here for our grandchildren. If you had been with me the last 9 hours of my husband’s life, you would not want anyone else you love to go through this. For the first time in 12 days, that day I was able to sit outside his ICU room just watching his body struggle to breathe on a ventilator.

Our friend, Joanna, recently posted about this pandemic. She was the ICU nurse that was with us when Don passed. She said at first it was “our parents and grandparents in the ICU and now it’s their friends.” Another friend, Dr. Conchita Martinez recently said to me that health workers are fleeing the work place because of the toll this pandemic has taken on them. All she sees every day are people coming in with Covid symptoms. These folks had time to get the vaccine, but they chose not to. I realize some do have medical reasons, but please get it if you can.

My husband has already missed birthdays, our 45th anniversary, ball games, times with the kids and grands, and just chill time with me. He won’t be there to watch how the kids do in school this year, see the post of Willem, Magdalena Nelson, playing piano, be with his co-workers and students at Dodson Elem…yeah, he’s missing it all. Stop and think about what you would miss and who would miss you!

If you disagree with this push to get us to a much safer place, then please unfriend me. I’ve been quiet through all the political unrest, but stop and use common sense. I will not be unfriending people, but I may hide some.

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