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Related: About this forumShe 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 Id identified at one of her shelter events, the little guy promptly deposited a poop on our dining room carpet.
Its 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, didnt 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
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)pazzyanne
(6,551 posts)LymphocyteLover
(5,644 posts)montana_hazeleyes
(3,424 posts)wendyb-NC
(3,325 posts)sinkingfeeling
(51,454 posts)letting the evil, vile ones get well.
RicROC
(1,204 posts)not exactly what was expected by those believing such an event.
sinkingfeeling
(51,454 posts)Loubee
(165 posts)this virus has killed, while so many evil ones have been let off easy. A symptom of our times, like Trump.
Backseat Driver
(4,392 posts)Backseat Driver
(4,392 posts)mnhtnbb
(31,386 posts)for her daily segment of lives well lived lost to coronavirus.
What a remarkable person.
Behind the Aegis
(53,956 posts)If so, I'd hope she'd do this one too: Married Texas couple, both teachers, die of Covid-19 while holding hands with their children. I tried to look for an email at MSNBC for her and didn't find it. Maybe someone reading your post (then mine), will pass the original story and the one I posted along to her.
cheezmaka
(737 posts)LaMouffette
(2,030 posts)I cannot fathom the right's callous disregard for human life. People ascribing to the herd immunity approach to the virus would shrug off Valerie's story and say, "It's too bad, but it is what it is."
niyad
(113,286 posts)Ruby Zee
(170 posts)happybird
(4,606 posts)Behind the Aegis
(53,956 posts)Yet ANOTHER hero...gone!
Blue Owl
(50,356 posts)And meanwhile fucking vile scum like tRump are alive and well. Not fair.