UA student: My grandmother deserved better than 'goodbye' through a window

[babylonsister]

UA student: My grandmother deserved better than 'goodbye' through a window
As coronavirus took my grandmother, I screamed 'I love you' through the window of her Tucson nursing home
By Anika Pasilis Special to the Arizona Daily Star May 17, 2020
The following is the opinion and analysis of the writer:

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“I’m sorry for your loss,” a million and one people have told me. I can’t accept that. It wasn’t just my loss, it was everyone’s.

Sally wasn’t the “milk and cookies” kind of grandma. Until very recently, she very rarely told me, “I love you.” Instead, she took me on grand adventures around Tucson. Together, we swam like fish in the pool and watched the sun burst into thousands of colors across the sky.

Before she was a grandmother, she was a freedom rider. In her youth, she was beaten and arrested by the police for protesting.

“I once saw a girl with all her teeth kicked out,” she recalled. “I was afraid that would happen to me, too.” Thankfully, she kept her teeth but spent a good amount of time in jail.

One of the most triumphant moments of her life was when she and her fellow freedom riders went to a church and the congregants all stood and cheered. She said Oprah wanted to interview her, but she didn’t want to be on television.

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[Srkdqltr]

1. That is beyond sad. My heart breaks for you.

[Srkdqltr]

3. My husband is 82

He wanted to go to stores to get stuff we don't need. I reminded him that if he got the virus or I did we go to the hospital alone. Alone. I can't go with him. No one can. or with me.
He wears the mask and only goes when absolutely necessary.

[Karadeniz]

2. Grandma was a treasure and we are diminished.

[crickets]

4. This breaks my heart.

It's happening again and again all over the country, with no leadership to bring us together to comfort one another. Of course, with real leadership we wouldn't have found ourselves in a situation this heartbreaking to begin with.

[demigoddess]

5. sounds like a great lady. I wish I had known her.