She Only Has One Good Lung. She Can’t Get the Vaccine. Olivia Messer
Like many Americans, Madonna Laws-Lowell has mixed feelings about the COVID-19 vaccine rollout.
Hope. Anger. Despair. Confusion.
The difference: Laws-Lowell, 53, has only one functioning lung and is still in the monitoring stage after she underwent surgery, and then chemotherapy, for colorectal cancer in 2019.
“My lungs could not withstand COVID,” she told The Daily Beast.
An orchid enthusiast based in St. Louis, Missouri, Laws-Lowell is finding the uncertainty surrounding when she might get vaccinated to be almost as unbearable as the pandemic itself.
And she finds the pandemic extremely unbearable.