Episode 8. Lisa in Indiana
Lisa from Indiana shares her story of losing her dad to COVID in March of 2021. We talk about so much in this episode and it's a long one, but there was no part of it I wanted to cut out. Lisa had to rehome her dad's dogs, take care of her mother, make the medical decisions for her father's care while he was in the hospital, and she had to decide when to turn off his life-support. As she says in this episode, her dad was her person. And it's clear from every word Lisa says that she was her dad's person right back.
This episode does include some talk that may be triggering, including medical descriptions of hospital procedure, how a person changes while they are in a medical coma and also some discussion about how hard it is to continue to want to live when someone you lost is gone.
Lisa mentions how she created an Instagram account to talk about her grief. You can find that at https://www.instagram.com/adaughter.survivinggrief.
Lisa also talks about the website whowelostusa.org and how you can submit your loved ones story there. She also mentions Rami's Heart COVID-19 Memorial. You can follow that memorial on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Covid19MemorialRamisheart/
Lisa's story about her dad was featured in her local news along with information on the InAmerica flags installation. You can view that here.
For context on this interview and the ever-changing pandemic, we recorded this episode on September 8, 2021.
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