Jackie Potter cannot stop thinking about her five dead children. The 60-year-old lives alone in Hamilton with nothing to do during the pandemic.
So she thinks. St. Matthew’s House, the seniors centre where she’d normally spend her days with her friends playing games, socializing and eating, is closed due to COVID-19.
That gives her brain more time to wander. She sits in her small house and remembers the twins, a boy and girl who were stillborn.
She remembers her son who was killed by a drunk driver. She remembers the massive heart attacks that claimed the life of her daughter and another son. “Some days I get very depressed,” Potter says. “Other days I try to be OK, but it doesn’t always work.