A Washington state family was forced to say their final goodbye to their mom using a walkie-talkie after she contracted the novel coronavirus.
Sundee Rutter was recovering from a battle with breast cancer when she was diagnosed with the illness currently sweeping through the U.S.
and around the world. In quarantine and away from her family, she was forced to say farewell to her six children using a walkie-talkie propped up against her pillow. “I told her I love her … She shouldn’t worry about the kids,” her son Elijah Ross-Rutter, 20, told BuzzFeed News.
Rutter, a 42-year-old single mother, died on March 16. Her kids watched her from a smaller window looking into her hospital room, the publication says.