Michelle Bennett couldn't hold her mother's hand in her final moments, or collect her belongings from her coronavirus-contaminated nursing home room. But she's deeply grateful to the nurses who could. knkxfm
So two people in protective gear did what she couldn't.
The second was an employee at Issaquah Nursing & Rehabilitation Center, who suited up to retrieve Gann’s final resting garments: a beautiful burgundy dress, black shoes and a pearl necklace. Bennett couldn’t retrieve them herself from the contaminated room, where her mother spent her final days laughing with her roommate.
Tragedy touched Gann’s life from the beginning. Police in Long Beach, California, found her crying over her mother’s body, shot to death by her father. She was 15 months old. Just two weeks earlier, she was self-quarantined in her room at the Issaquah nursing home, where the virus was spreading. Michelle Bennett talks to her mom via FaceTime, on a nurse's personal cellphone, in the final hours of her life, less than two weeks after testing positive for COVID-19.Two days after Gann was hospitalized, the emergency room doctor told Bennett her mother had a 10 percent chance of survival. So, Bennett considered it “an incredible miracle” when Gann called her the next day: “It was such an amazing relief.
“These nurses, this health care staff, they have to endure this pain, as well,” Bennett said, fighting back tears. “They're the last conduit of life.”
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