"Grief is so different in this time of crisis, because we're all isolated," Lloyd Torres said.
Torres said his brother, Louis, his only sibling, fell ill during the last week of March.
"He wasn't eating," Torres said in an interview Tuesday."He said he couldn't keep anything down. He was nauseous. Same thing with my mom." Torres, 49, works in information technology at Columbia University Irving Medical Center, and his wife, Chantal, works in administration at White Plains Hospital. They contacted their friends in the health care field to help find his mother.His mother and his brother were in the emergency departments at separate hospitals, which restricted visitors.
Torres and his wife again worked their networks, this time to find the doctor treating his mother. Their efforts were successful, and he was able to speak with Lolita's caretakers. Torres said he recognizes that their connections offered him a privilege many in his situation don't have. Within 24 hours, Torres was contacted by his brother's doctor, who informed him that Louis' heart had also stopped. He was 47. Louis' kidney functions had begun to deteriorate days earlier, his lungs weren't working, and his heart had finally given up, Torres said."Dr. Ford had been calling me every day with updates on my brother," Torres said."I could feel the weight of the world crashing down on me.
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