On the day a New York family was to be celebrating their twins’ 10th birthday, they lost their father to the novel coronavirus.
Last Sunday, Melody Aravena received the devastating call from an Orange County hospital, informing her of husband Rolando Aravena’s tragic death, the Time Herald-Record reports.
He was 44. “We’re broken and hurting,” she told the publication. “We don’t know how to survive without him. He was the rock of our family.” “The government and healthcare system failed us.
They waited too long (to take actions),” she said. “On his last day, the hospital still told us to stay home and self-quarantine, but he was dying.” Rolando started showing COVID-19 symptoms, like chills and fever, on March 19.