She Saved Thousands of Best Friends. Then Covid-19 Killed Her.
Valerie Louie saved our beloved Uncle Mort from a life of abuse. Then she became a pandemic casualty. Her death is being mourned by households with four-pawed members across San Francisco and the Bay Area.
Ms. Louie spent two decades rescuing dogs like Uncle Mort from shelters and finding them homes like ours anxious to have a new best friend. Her specialty was rescuing the truly abandoned and broken pup, the abused, the blind, the deaf and the long in tooth.
The day she dropped off the sad-eyed mutt I’d identified at one of her shelter events, the little guy promptly deposited a poop on our dining room carpet.
“It’s just a little one,” Ms. Louie said. She had a generous smile and the patience of a member of the clergy.
Ms. Louie, who died of Covid-19 on Nov. 25 after two weeks in an intensive care unit, didn’t just save rescue dogs. She saved people too. She was a nurse and worked for 32 years at Highland Hospital in Oakland, starting in the emergency department. Her last position was coordinator of advanced life support.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/17/health/covid-rescue-dogs.html
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for her daily segment of lives well lived lost to coronavirus.
What a remarkable person.
