His body was last seen yesterday, hours after he died after being hospitalized with pneumonia caused by COVID-19. It seemed like a bad dream where everything happens quickly and without time to assimilate the new reality, in a foreign country, without relatives, with different laws and procedures to comply with. And also with an economic debt in tow, in the midst of that pain that grows and that at times drowns.
Doménica and her parents, Franklin and Glenda, traveled on December 22, 2020 to New York, United States, to spend a few days of vacation together, respecting and complying with biosafety measures and protocols in this time of a pandemic due to the coronavirus, which is causing of COVID-19, without imagining that days after being there they would begin to feel sick.
On December 27, Glenda, the mother, got sick. He was taking a step and gasping for air. They took her to the hospital because she needed oxygen. They admitted her and there they told her she had COVID-19. And the result was the same for the other two members of the Terán Monar family, originally from Guayaquil.
Franklin, her husband, and Doménica, her daughter, stayed at a nearby hotel to move faster and easier to the hospital.
People should start taking care of themselves, it is a very, very painful disease (caused by COVID-19), which we do not wish on anyone. Love, love, hug and appreciate the people you have by your side before it is too late “, Doménica Terán.
While Glenda was fighting for her life, had pneumonia, and spent one night in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU), Franklin initially developed a kind of mild cough. He was strong in the first days his wife was hospitalized and apparently he did not want to leave his daughter alone, in a foreign country, says a relative in Ecuador.
Within a week, Franklin got worse and arrived at the hospital in an ambulance. His picture: COVID-19 pneumonia.
With both parents hospitalized, who did not speak English, only Spanish, and isolated and without being able to see them, only by video calls, the young woman asked for her speedy recovery, while virtually serving as a translator for doctors and nurses.
The mother, Glenda, managed to leave the hospital a week ago, but he was hospitalized and had to be intubated on the night of January 17, after entering the ICU.
“My dad suffered a lot because (before going to the ICU) he had very long and strong episodes of anxiety, he tried to take everything off and shouted that everything hurt,” Doménica tells this newspaper, through WhatsApp. She doesn’t know how they got it because everyone took care of themselves, she says. You think maybe the virus was in the environment.
At 03:00 on January 18, Doménica received a call from the doctor who told her that her father’s heart did not resist any more and that they tried everything to revive him, but he did not respond and his life ended at 01:30.
Doménica, overwhelmed, wrote, hours later, part of her story on the US platform GoFundMe, which allows you to raise funds online for various purposes, since in the United States they must stay one more month until they obtain all the documents and Franklin’s ashes.
Terán Monar Family is called the title of the campaign on the web. There Doménica asks for financial help to pay for expenses such as the cremation of her father and to be able to return to Ecuador, to Guayaquil, with his ashes.
“I was alone while my two parents were in the hospital. The bills were going up more and more, we got emergency insurance, however we needed to be able to feed ourselves, accommodation, medicate and certain additional expenses,” he wrote on the GoFundMe platform, after the death of his parent.
There he relates that they went to spend fifteen days in the United States, which ended up becoming weeks full of worry and in which unforeseen expenses arose.
“My dad was hospitalized until today (January 18), after very hard days and my dad’s struggle in the hospital, he passed away. A man with a big heart, the best dad and full of great humility”, exposes in his writing.
And he adds in GoFundMe: “I write this because I ask with all my heart for your help and solidarity. The money to be raised will be to help us pay the bills, and above all to be able to return to our country Ecuador and bring my father with us. “.
His goal with the campaign is to raise $ 15,000. Until 3:30 pm yesterday there were $ 3,324.
In Ecuador, a transfer can be made to the savings account 43253625 of Banco Guayaquil, in the name of Glenda Isabel Monar Herrera. And on the internet, in the link https://gofund.me/69814dd9, which can be pasted on any web page.
There is his story, which is added to those of the dozens of Ecuadorian families who are currently battling and suffering from COVID-19 at this time. (I)
My dad suffered a lot because (before going to the ICU) he had very long and strong episodes of anxiety, he tried to take everything off and shouted that everything was hurting him “, Doménica Terán, her father died of COVID-19.
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