WINSLOW, AZ (3TV/CBS 5) – Relations are grieving the lack of a Winslow medical employee who died from COVID-19. Arneice Brown had been working on the Little Colorado Medical Heart since 2004 as a affected person care technician till the virus took her life final week.
Brown’s son, Darius Thomas, says she caught the coronavirus a few weeks in the past. Thomas described his mother’s signs as delicate. Then her well being took a flip for the more serious.
Photograph of Arneice Brown.
“She was glad, you already know, saying she was going again to work,” says Thomas. “And it simply hit her.”
Thomas says his mother was reaching the top of her quarantine when she died Thursday. The 55-year-old had some well being points, says Thomas, however he’s urging everybody to take stay-at-home orders critically to guard everybody.
“All people’s nervous about work and getting cash and stuff, however they’re not nervous in regards to the lives which can be in peril,” says Thomas.
“She was the sunshine of our day, the sunshine of our unit,” says Leslie Fusaro-Dean, the chief nursing officer at Little Colorado Medical Heart.
The ability serves the Navajo Nation, which has been hit arduous by the COVID-19 disaster. Fusaro-Dean says the 25-bed hospital had expanded capability in preparation for an inflow of coronavirus sufferers. She says Brown, like all hospital workers, wore a masks although she didn’t do plenty of direct affected person care lately.
“She simply made those that had been staying within the hospital really feel snug,” says Thomas. “That’s the particular person she was at work and out of doors of labor.”
Thomas is having a tough time grieving with the household. He can’t even hug his dad and brother as a result of they’re at the moment quarantined, awaiting their COVID-19 take a look at outcomes. Thomas says he’ll miss his mother, and he’s heartbroken his youngsters didn’t have extra time with their grandmother.
“My mother wasn’t simply my mother. She was my finest buddy. She was my motivation to maintain me going,” says Thomas. “It’s by no means going to be the identical.”
The household is accepting donations for companies. You may contribute by contacting the Winslow Santa Fe Credit Union at (928)289-2962 or Greer’s Mortuary of Winslow at (928)289-3335.
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