I've been grieving since my close friend Deb died during this coronavirus pandemic March 13.  She was only 2 years older than me (I'm 61) and went really quickly, so it was a shock to lose her.  I posted here about losing her and got lots of great support from everybody.

Then soon after that, my 2nd loved one tested positive for COVID-19.  She's an elderly lady who's been like a mother to me for the past 10 years since I've been estranged from my abusive family of origin.  She's 93, so she's in the high risk coronavirus category.  I posted about my fear of losing her, too, and once again I got a lot of great support from everybody.

So since you all were so good to me in my grief, I just wanted to show my gratitude, too, that my 2nd loved one with the coronavirus is still with us.  At the end of every day around 9pm I get the latest update on her condition.  She's in a nursing home where she's one of 71 people who have COVID-19, so she's in the "hot spot" for coronavirus in my area.  Every other day or so another one of those with coronavirus dies there, but for 2 weeks now when I get the phone call I find out that today it wasn't her, and I'm grateful.  She isn't even running a fever!

She's in a windowless ICU unit, so those of us who care about her can't go to her window and wave to her like was possible before . But she can talk on the phone every day and let us know she's made it through another day.  It's always really good news, so I thought I'd share it.