Is this one?
You don't really know how serious something is until it affects you.
You know ... and that's what happened with us.
Probably the best metaphor that I heard is that, you know, this virus is like a tornado
because it'll touch everything that it passes through, it might just pull
a shutter off this house, but it could completely destroy another.
She was always ... she was the best mum I ever had.
What does it say on your shirt?
Yolanda is strong.
Throughout the day at work, you know, I would ... we text each other a little bit
on our lunch break and she was saying she felt some ache, her body was aching.
We had a staff meeting on a Wednesday and
towards the end of the day she just said that she just started feeling a little off.
We didn't even realise until late that Sunday that she was in the hospital.
My only communication with her was I could FaceTime her.
She couldn't communicate back but I just wanted her to hear my voice.
It was hard having her here because I couldn't see her and I was used to, used to seeing her every
day and working so closely with her every day. We weren't just co-workers, you know, we were very
close friends. Our kids play on the same soccer team, our kids go to the same school. So it was
more than just, 'Oh, I lost my co-manager.' It's like, 'Oh I don't have ... my friend's not here.'
So...
Um... It was quite abrupt when I got the call.
And then they called me later on, let me know they took her off and then that she...
they gave me like her exact time of death, 6:13. I was, 'No ...'
Because of how strong of a person she was, her presence lingers in the best way possible.
Now you gotta go in here and see.
Thank you.
We still use her same motto up on our unit because when she stepped in that
nurse manager role back in May her motto for the unit was to be exceptional and we use that daily.
Nurse who lost her battle with Covid-19. A balloon released today for Yolanda Coar
right outside AU Medical Center, where she had worked for 13 years.
It is amazing the way the community
rallied around my family and rallied to uplift her and to keep her memory going.
I just knew I had to really step up to the plate and continue to raise these boys the way that
we would raise them as if she was still here.
I wanted to keep things as normal as I could for them, try to continue to be a positive
influence on them, keep them busy, because it helps me too, it helps, it keeps me busy.
There's ... there's good with all bad. Yes, I would love for my wife to still be here and
I know all the other ones who lost their loved ones would want their loved ones to be here too
but you have to remember all the good times, the good memories that you guys had and just have to
keep pushing through, you know. These things, you don't get over them, you just get through them.
Three, two, one ... Vaccinate!