symptoms. the 45-year-old topeka mayor michelle de la isla is a mother of three and will have a pacemaker implanted on monday to fix damage to her heart from covid. she s been hospitalized three different times including surgery to remove her gull bladder because of digestive problems after getting the virus. mayor de la isla is outfront . i m wishing you the best because this has to be mentally what you re dealing with and three kids on top of this physical pain that you re going through, can you just tell me what you ve been facing through this ordeal and how the symptoms started, how this built? well, the first symptom i had in january was rather odd. i was taking a shower and i told my friends i thought my gosh, i m going to go but at least i m going to go clean. i was washing my hair and i just felt like life was leaving me. it was the weirdest thing. little did i know that was my