Woman woke up from Covid coma to discover her husband and father-in-law had been killed by it
A woman woke up from a Covid-induced coma to discover that her husband and father-in-law had been killed by the virus.
Karen Nascembi found out on April 20 that her husband Steven Richard and his father died in Beverly, Massachusetts after they both went to the hospital on March 17.
‘You wake up and it’s like, ‘Your husband is gone. Your father-in-law is gone,”‘ Nascembeni said to ABC 5.
When they both drove to the hospital together, Nascembi said she did not know it would be the last time she would ever see her husband.
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‘When he got out of the car, he turned around, he looked at me, he blew me a kiss and he said, “I love you,”‘ Nascembeni said. “I was like a school girl. I looked at him, because it was so sweet the way he did it, and I said, “I love you, too.”‘
After being in a coma for 31 days, she is now urging people to take coronavirus seriously.
‘My husband and I slowly started declining,’ Nascembeni said. ‘It was probably the sickest we’ve ever been. We just didn’t feel right.’
She also awoke to the news that she had been laid off as the general manager for a local theater.
‘I had to physically deal with my own ailments and then not having a job on top of it,’ Nascembi said.
She said that she is focusing on gratitude to help her heal from all the terrible amounts of loss she has faced.
‘I try not to focus on what I don’t have and what I’m not going to have, but the gift that he was to me for 30 years,’ Nascembi said. ‘He was probably one of the kindest souls I’ve ever known.’
The theater and the rest of her family have set up a GoFundMe page to help with expenses related to this tragedy.
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There are over 9 million cases of coronavirus in America, and 229,000 are dead.
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