COVID TRAGEDY

Speaker 1 So, we never spoke again after my birthday night. I cried everything I had to cry, and never, ever, ever for one minute I understood why he did all of that, wasted so much of my time, lied so much.

Speaker 1 This to me is always going to be the crazy part. Why, why, why? But I guess sometimes in life, you just need to go without the answer.

Speaker 1 Fast forward the story: March, April, May,

Speaker 1 June, July,

Speaker 1 all this craziness with COVID going on, the pandemic, quarantine.

Speaker 1 Mid-July,

Speaker 1 I get the news that he was in intensive care with COVID.

Speaker 1 I was like, oh my God.

Speaker 1 I called his daughter and she tells me he's okay. He's getting better.
He's one of the people in intensive care, care, actually

Speaker 1 doing better than

Speaker 1 most of all the patients there, and that he was going to be fine.

Speaker 1 So I call him. He answered the phone.
He was actually communicating with the outside world. He had like an oxygen mask on,

Speaker 1 and he was a little scared, like agitated, but he thought he was going to get better.

Speaker 1 But then

Speaker 1 a few days later, all of a sudden

Speaker 1 they told me he got intubated. He got much worse.
All of a sudden,

Speaker 1 two days later, he died. Everything happened like within 10 days.
Getting sick, feeling sick, not being able to breathe at home.

Speaker 1 And the irony of this story and the irony of life is that the lady he was with on my birthday was the lady that

Speaker 1 went to visit him at his apartment and gave him COVID.

Speaker 1 And

Speaker 1 so, anyways, I don't know if you guys believe in energy and karma or decisions, but that's the sad part. He died July 23rd.
He left four kids behind. I'm still super close.
I love his kids.

Speaker 1 I've been supporting them, loving them, helping whatever way I can.

Speaker 1 And I am very sad that everything ended like this. I don't wish this on anyone.
A lot of my girlfriends told me, me, oh, you shouldn't have helped.

Speaker 1 You shouldn't get tangled up with his kids. But that's not the way I think.

Speaker 1 I think still, regardless of what he did as a man, he was a wonderful father, a wonderful man, regardless of what he did to me as a boyfriend.

Speaker 1 And I'm going to be here for his kids and be supportive and do whatever I can. But that's the sad ending to the Minhoko story.
On to the next one, which is not that sad.

Speaker 1 It's kind of cringe-worthy, some funny moments, but it just made me realize how short life is.

Speaker 1 And we make so many plans, we think so much about the future, but it really is about living what we have right now because we don't really know how long we're going to be here for.