Two years have passed since the COVID-19 pandemic first took hold of North Texas. Since then, more than 14,200 North Texans have died from the virus, with...
After four surges of multiple variants of COVID-19, the pandemic appears to be ebbing. Mask mandates are now lifted for many of us and life is moving on. But for those left behind by the victims of COVID, any sense of normal – any semblance of pre-pandemic life – is still a long time away.If we try to return to life as we knew it without confronting the trauma inflicted by such loss, we risk detrimental effects to our mental, emotional and physical health, experts warn.
Dallas-native Kornitki Sledge lost both her mother and grandmother to the coronavirus in a matter of weeks, thrusting her into the role of emotional caretaker for her entire family. “I think that one thing that still kills me is knowing that I didn’t get to say goodbye,” said Anita Arango, Alex’s wife of nearly 44 years. “That is something that tears at me, that I didn’t get to tell him that it was OK. That I would be OK.”Some might say that Patrick Willis Anthony Bailey was a lucky man. More than once, he had tempted fate, and more than once, he had whipped it. Patrick was a gay man married to his partner.
Every year, Christmas Eve used to be a joyous occasion filled with family, food, laughter and Christmas carols at Patricia Muñoz’s home in Fort Worth. But COVID took away her life in December 2020. Debra Bell was 67 when she died in September 2020 from COVID-19. Her daughter, Torsha Haynes, 50, said her mom suffered from high blood pressure but was otherwise healthy. Something her mom never suffered from was bitterness.She lost her longtime love of more than 70 years to COVID-19
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