A Nevada woman is urging everyone to get the COVID vaccine after losing her fiancé to the virus.
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Michael Freedy tested positive for COVID-19 following a family vacation with Jessica DuPreez and their five children. At first, he thought he was just suffering from a particularly bad sunburn, but after getting checked out, discovered the pandemic had finally caught up with him.
After initially being sent home, Freedy was eventually admitted to the hospital with pneumonia in both of his lungs. Within a week, he was intubated, and things were looking bleak.
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“He told me he loves me and I told him I love him so much and to please please please fight and come home to me,” DuPreez wrote in a GoFundMe post prior to Freedy’s death. “That’s the last I’ve been able to hear his voice or communicate with him. I went to the ICU that night to see him, after getting one of the worst phone call updates ever. The nurse told me to contact next of kin and to take all of his belongings home with me.”
Freedy didn’t last long after that. According to an update from DuPreez on July 29, she was at the hospital with him when “his numbers crashed and they were not able to bring them back up.”
The couple weren’t anti-vaxxers, but they thought it was wise to wait for a year after the vaccine became publicly available, just to get a better read on the side effects. That decision ultimately cost Freedy his life. “I should have gotten the damn vaccine,” read his final text.
During the time following Freedy’s positive COVID test, DuPreez and her 17-year-old son got the vaccine, and now she’s going public with their story to encourage everyone else to do the same.
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“My kids don’t have a dad anymore because we hesitated,” she told CNN. “Everybody can have a bad reaction to any vaccine throughout history but I would take a bad reaction to the vaccine over having to bury my husband.”
*First Published: August 3, 2021, 7:03 am
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