Covid is Taking My Mom
6 min readApr 4, 2022
Newsflash: The pandemic isn’t over. Don’t let your guard down.
My mother is lying prone in a bed in the intensive care unit at Scripps Mercy Hospital in Chula Vista, California.
Within 12 hours of going on a ventilator, she had a stroke, and though her doctor cannot determine precisely how it has affected Mom, she expects her to need 24/7 nursing care for the rest of her life.
