Summer in South Carolina

Episode 38. Summer in South Carolina

In this episode, I will be talking with Summer in South Carolina. This is a powerful episode about not only COVID loss, but long COVID. Summer's husband, Robert, was in the COVID ICU for 81 days and then he was released to a rehab facility and came home in October 2020. And he was home for almost 18 months. But Robert, and Summer, struggled through his long COVID. They saw specialists and doctors who all told them to "wait and see" and so they did. Robert died on March 22, 2022 in their home of a massive heart attack brought on by complications of Long COVID. As Summer says, God gave her husband back to her only to lose him.

She has become an advocate for Long Haulers and offers help and support to everyone struggling with Long Haul in the medical system. Summer advocates for Long Haul with Covid Survivors for Change. She is part of the Yellow Heart Memorial  LongHaul advocacy and she is a powerful storyteller. Her husband told her to keep telling his story and she has. They have been features on Fox News, ABC news and many other news outlets. Many of those links are in the show notes below. Lastly, we do talk about detailed medical procedures and suicide is mentioned in this episode. Know that this may be triggering for some.

Covid Survivors for Change
Yellow Heart Memorial

And here are links to just a few of the online news stories about Summer and her husband, Robert.

https://www.foxcarolina.com/2022/03/25/upstate-frontline-worker-passes-away-after-after-massive-heart-attack/

https://people.com/politics/covid-19-survivors-sign-letter-donald-trump-for-failed-leadership/

https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/19/us/young-parents-covid-deaths/index.html

For context on this interview and the ever-changing pandemic, we recorded this episode on  August 17, 2022.