Single mom of 6 who died of coronavirus had to say goodbye to family on a walkie-talkie
Rutter, a 42-year-old stage 4 breast cancer survivor and single mother of six, lost her battle to COVID-19 on March 16 in Washington state, ABC affiliate KOMO news reported earlier this month.
“I told her I love her ... she shouldn’t worry about the kids,” Elijah Ross-Rutter, her fourth-oldest child, told the website.Rutter’s immune system had been weakened as a result of a yearlong bout with breast cancer and initially went to Providence Regional Medical Center in Everett — the hospital where the first known case of COVID-19 in the US was detected, according to KOMO — on March 3. She was sent home, but on March 7, Rutter returned to the hospital and was admitted for pneumonia.
“This has not been an easy road for these kids,” Carrie Frederickson, a friend of Rutter’s, wrote on a GoFundMe page she set up to raise money for the family. “They have been through a lot in the past several years.” Story continuesAccording to the page, the children’s father had already died, leaving them without parents.
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