Checking out of Frisbie Memorial Hospital in Rochester after a month-long battle with COVID-19 was a heavy experience for Kelly Higinson on Thursday, and not just because the effects of the virus still lingered within her lungs.
It’s because Higinson was the only one leaving.
Higinson and her mother and stepfather, Susie and Louis Thurston, were all hospitalized in Frisbie’s intensive care unit together for COVID-19. The trio represented 50% of the ICU, thus leaving a somber hole when Susie, 74, and Lou, 73, were recently taken off treatment and life support.
“They grieved as much as I did, so it was like we shared it together,” Higinson, 53, said of Frisbie’s staff. “We did it together. It made it so much easier.”
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