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I could not hug my mother

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I could not hug my mother

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For my primary source, I selected a screenshot of me and my mom while we talked through Facetime. In this facetime we were in the same house but unable to see each other in person since she was infected with the covid-19 virus. Apparently, my mother became ill with covid-19 while celebrating the end of 2020 with close relatives, they were around 6 members of my family and they decided to go celebrate that day since they had not seen each other for a long time. That day I was working at night and cannot go to the party. Well, on the first of January I couldn't go to my house either since my co-workers called out and I had to do a double shift. I left the first of January around 3:00 pm from my work, before arriving at my house my mother called me and told me that she was not feeling well and that she believed that she was infected with covid because she had all the symptoms related to this virus. She went to do the test so I went to my girlfriend's house to wait for my mother to call me to confirm what we already suspected, around 5:00 pm she called me to tell me that she, my aunt and my cousin were positive .

We could not leave our house for 16 days and only seeing each other through Facetime. I remember we took turns using the kitchen or leaving our rooms. To use the bathroom, we each entered with a Lysol to disinfect before and after using it. We used gloves and a mask when we left our rooms, so that I would not get infected. Today, 5 months later, my mother is still suffering the consequences of being infected, she gets tired when she walks for a long time and is in training since she has bacteria in the lungs as a result of covid-19.

I decided to select this screenshot as my source because it represents what many people went through during the pandemic. Family that lasted months without seeing each other when before the pandemic they saw each other every day and grandparents without knowing their newborn grandchildren were some of the scenes that we could see during the pandemic. I am the only son of my mother and we have a remarkably close relationship. Never in our lives would we have lasted so long without seeing each other in person and without having hugged each other, it was very painful.
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Date (Dublin Core)

December 31, 2020

Event Identifier (Dublin Core)

HIS20
Winter2020
ProfessorCulkin

Partner (Dublin Core)

Bronx Community College

Type (Dublin Core)

photograph
personal essay

Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)

English Healthcare
English Public Health & Hospitals
English Home & Family Life

Curator's Tags (Omeka Classic)

family
contact
mother
testing
work
pandemic
hospitalization

Contributor's Tags (a true folksonomy) (Friend of a Friend)

CUNY
Bronx Community College
COVID-19
PSC CUNY

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Date Submitted (Dublin Core)

05/17/2021

Date Modified (Dublin Core)

05/18/2021
07/10/2021
09/15/2021
11/05/2023

Date Created (Dublin Core)

12/31/2020

Format (Dublin Core)

image/jpg

Rights (Dublin Core)

CC-ND-NC 4.0

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This item was submitted on May 17, 2021 by [anonymous user] using the form “Share your story- Bronx” on the site “Bronx Community College New York”: http://mail.covid-19archive.org/s/bronx-community-college-new-york

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