1/ On January 23rd, 2021, I drove my husband, Rich, to a hospital in Santa Monica. He had been suffering from COVID for almost a week and no matter how hard I tried, I couldn’t keep his temperature below 106 for more than 2-3 hrs...
2/ He was wracked with electric brain zaps/mini seizures and it was time to take him to the hospital. But I knew not to call 911. Over the 15 yrs I’ve lived in LA I’ve had to call 911 three times and every single time I was put on hold. On. Hold...
3/ ...even as I watched a man died in my arms after being hit by a car in front of our place. My BIL came to watch our five-year-old daughter while I drove him to the hospital, drenched, barely able to breathe and delirious...
4/ I had just given him his next dose of ibuprofen. When we arrived he was given a temp check in the parking lot. Ibuprofen had kicked in and they didn’t believe me that his temp was a consistent 105-106. They laid him down in a gurney in the parking lot,...
5/ told me to say goodbye and sent me away. I kissed him. I didn’t care. We lived in a tiny one bedroom duplex, slept together every night, I changed his sweat drenched clothes for the last week and made sure he was hydrated. I kissed my husband, the love of my life &...
6/ I went to my car and cried. I got a call an hour later from the hospital. “He has pneumonia in addition to COVID. We can’t admit him. Come get him.” What. The. Fuck. I picked him up and practically carried him to the car (he’s 6’2”, 220)...
7/ They gave him an inhaler and more ibuprofen and said good luck. I put him into bed but he was wracked with pain. He was dying. I called my BIL and told him I was taking him to a hospital that I knew would take him — 6 hours away. Out of California...
8/ I and BIL packed him up, strapped my daughter into her seat and left. I wrote a six page document during the drive of what happened and his symptoms for the doctors in case we were separated (and we were) for the hospital...
9/ We dropped BIL and my daughter off at the hotel across the street from hospital. I get a phone call. Me and my daughter are both positive. I already knew I was. I could feel it. But my body went cold for my daughter...
10/ I took my husband to the ER. They had to wheelchair him in. Then they looked at me and took my vitals. They were as bad as his but adrenaline kept me going. We were both admitted. We both had pneumonia. They stabilized us and...
11/ much later sent us across the street with breathing machines, antibiotics, steroids and more. My husband lived because I took him to a hospital outside of CA. We happen to have the best PPO insurance at that time (first time in our lives) and it was a total clusterfuck...
12/ Many people died because of lack of access to proper care. My husband ran a 30 million dollar a year grocery store in Santa Monica but we got our insurance through me because the company didn’t take care of their employees. He ran out of sick leave and...
13/ the extra two weeks provided during the pandemic and was forced to return to run the store, working 60+ hours a week, when he couldn’t even walk ten feet without getting winded. I saved my husband because of my past experiences and knowledge of where to go...
14/ His boss has numerous multi-million dollar properties in LA, was in touch with me the whole time, and washed his hands of the situation once he knew he would survive. This is the world we live in. This is why so many died when they didn’t have to. My husband & daughter may...
15/ forget the worst of it, and I hope they do, but I will never forget watching my 5-year-old climb into an ice bath to “help daddy”, pour water over him, petting his head, kissing his cheeks and telling him he will be okay while he had 106 temp, I had 104 temp on the phone...
16/ w/ his boss & hospitals, begging someone to help us. It feels like people r already forgetting. Like the 24hr news cycle. This pandemic has highlighted so many problems but it seems like our first instinct is to forget instead of change. It's easier. But if we can't change...
17/ ...when something that affected us all, small or big, when will we? @LDJackson @JackieRGeary @DanPriceSeattle @pludger @whsuleonard @LaceyBanis @MeghanMcCain @yashar @nevslin @SaraJBenincasa @meena @chris_notcapn @glenmazzara @MrPaulBae @amandakloots @CNN @MSNBC
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