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'Iâm so sorry that this happened': Woman on a mission to heal after exposing dad to deadly virus
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Updated: 5:20 PM EDT May 25, 2021
By LUIS ANDRES HENAO and JESSIE WARDARSKI, Associated Press
'Iâm so sorry that this happened': Woman on a mission to heal after exposing dad to deadly virus
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Updated: 5:20 PM EDT May 25, 2021
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I would have done anything for my part. You know I used to take him to the doctor when he used to have you know this appointment and that appointment and who is my greatest joy taking him and taken care of women. I should have taken care of him for this. I should not have given up and call the ambulance. That's what aunts me and thinking about him alone in that room and I know he was terrified. Uh huh. Okay. I mean he really lived life even though he was handed a rough, you know a rough start when his mom died. And you know with my mother being sick, everything in his life was business and family. I mean if he if you asked him what is important to you, that's that's what he would say. People that met him felt like they were his best friend always. He was the greatest. He was truly the greatest. I mean the screensaver on my phone's been my screen saver for a year. It was the last picture we took together. It was the week that was like the week that I I was sick. I was sick but I didn't know at the beginning people would say well how did he get it for me? That's how he got it. He got it from me. I contracted the virus and I brought it into their house while trying to protect them. I didn't know and I was doing the shopping and bringing in meals and so forth. It was March 28 when I when he went into the hospital, it was the day my fever broke. It was the day that the AIDS called me and said you have to come over and care for your mother because we were sick and we need to leave. All right. Ready? Oh. Oh mm. This is his personal, oh my God. Oh he used to, Hey, did you see this 1? And you know what? I still go through a lot of guilt and obviously, but then I think that he would want me to be living my life. I was in a real funk for a real long time. And then one of my daughters said to me, you know mommy, we thought that we lost our grandfather. We didn't realize we also lost our mom and that was changing from, you know, then I figured I have to snap out of it. I have to be the best mom that I can be because I was a really good mom before. And then they lost me somewhere along the way. I haven't been the same person and I don't, I won't ever be the same person without my father and the experience that we went through. No, my father would be so tortured if he thought about how tortured I was. And I want him, I want him to be happy and at peace and he's only going to be that way if I'm that way here. So I really feel that you do it for your loved ones and live your life the way that they would want you to live it. Bernie is this a humdinger? It certainly is one humdinger?