A healthy high school student in Chicago contracted COVID-19 just before Christmas, and died a few days ago because the virus “ate her,” her family says.
“She called me crying to tell me, you know,‘ Mom, I’m going to miss Christmas. ’And I had to reassure her that there’s only one day on the calendar, and when she gets home,‘ we’ll do the Christmas with you “. … Unfortunately he didn’t [leave the hospital]”She told Deborah Simental, Sarah Simental’s grieving mother, on ABC-TV’s local affiliate.
“She literally just ate it,” the mother said of the coronavirus. “And no father should ever have to watch his son go through it.”
Deborah said her 18-year-old daughter had no health issues when she had a headache and began suffering from neck pain and body aches on Dec. 23.
Sarah felt so bad that her parents took her to a local hospital, where she only got worse and was taken to the University of Chicago hospital, ABC told.
The teen never recovered, dying the day after Christmas.
“I have no words for that. I just can’t believe how fast he moved forward, ”Sarah’s father, Don Simental, said at the exit.
Deborah said the only consolation for her and her husband was that they could be in her daughter’s bed when she died.
“She said,‘ I’ll be fine, Mom. ’And that was the last one,” the mother recalled. “So I know she knows, finally, we will all be fine. We will miss her, but we will be fine ”.
Still, “I’m thinking I’ll miss some real milestones that every mother wants to have with her daughter,” the mother said.