A loving husband has passed away from coronavirus shortly after paying a visit to his dying wife at the hospital.
90-year-old Sam Reck was determined to pay a visit to his wife, 86-year-old JoAnn, after she got hospitalized at Lakeland Regional Health Medical Center in Florida due to Covid-19 complications.
While the doctors tried to stop the senior from visiting his wife due to the high risk of the spread of the killer bug, Mr. Reck refused to let the chance to say his final goodbye to his wife slip by.
Determined to be reunited with his wife, Sam ignored the medics’ advice, and the pair, who were dubbed Romero and Juliet by the staff at their nursing home, were able to see each other before JoAnn passed away.
Following his visit to the hospital on July 12, Sam started suffering from COVID symptoms and passed away on August 1.
Prior to his death, the husband allegedly told his family he didn’t regret visiting his wife at all and claimed he was “very happy” to have the chance to see her one last time.
“Today we lost Sam to the same affliction as our mother three weeks earlier, Covid-19. It felt strange to return to the exact room I last saw my mother, now with Sam going through the same struggle to breathe,” JoAnn’s son from her previous marriage, Scott Hooper, expressed in a tribute to the lovers.
“He was with us in this room when we all said goodbye to my mom. He was very much a broken man seeing her suffer.
“After Sam tested positive for Covid, I asked him if he regretted his visit to the hospital. Without pause he replied, ‘Not one second.’ He said no matter what happens, he was very happy he had the opportunity to say goodbye and hold her hand one more time.”
May they rest in peace.
Replaced!