The COVID-19 pandemic forces two sisters apart after nine decades
21 photos look at what’s being called the new normal as people around the world deal with the coronavirus and the disease it causes, COVID-19.“It’s very annoying,” Casserly said. “I can call her on the phone — that’s the best I can do. The fact that I can’t go there, see her and talk to her — or watch a couple of game shows with her from outside as we sometimes do — now that’s gone.”
The new normal that she, the nation and the world have been thrust into comes as a blow to the bond that she and her sister have built up over nine decades.The sisters moved from Rochester, N.Y., to Los Angeles with their Italian immigrant parents in 1945. Their older brother Henry Sorney, who died in 2006, joined the family after serving in the Army Air Corps in World War II. Casserly, who goes by the nickname “Corky,” was 16. Sorney, who goes by “Ruthie,” was 20.
Casserly got married and became a stay-at-home mom, raising five children in the house she bought in 1950 and still lives in as a widow twice over. “Oh, my God, she curses like a sailor!” Casserly recalls. “She knows every player and when they trade, she has a fit.”The dinners were large affairs at first, with Sorney accompanying her parents. After they died, she came alone.
Many families already deal with feelings of guilt over having to place their loved ones in senior facilities. Not having access to them during the pandemic only adds to their grief and concern, says Barbara Wogh, a registered nurse in Woodland Hills who helps families access medical care for their aging relatives.
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