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I want to tell you about Lisa Ewald. She was 54, a nurse at Henry Ford, lived in Dearborn. On Monday, she told friends she was COVID positive, after being exposed to a patient w/ the virus. On Wednesday morning, her neighbor found her. (1/?) http:// http://tinyurl.com/w6joyby
Her neighbor, Alexis Fernandez, says it was frustrating that Ewald said she couldn't get tested until she started exhibiting symptoms. She went "back and forth" 2x trying to get tested. "It cost her her life," Fernandez says. (2/?)
"The moment she was exposed, she should have been given the test. To me,it's unconscionable. She wasn’t given the test [immediately] despite having worked at the hospital in that capacity. And it cost her her life." (3/?)
Fernandez says Ewald was feverish, had chills, body aches, but her symptoms fluctuated. She didn't respond to a text from Fernandez on Tuesday night, but Fernandez could see Ewald's lights were on, TV was on, assumed she'd fallen asleep. (3/?)
Weds morning, Fernandez & a Henry Ford nurse doing a wellness check, went to Ewald's home. "And there she was sitting on the couch, gone. I started yelling, ‘Lisa! Lisa!’ She didn’t move. And I shouted to the nurse, ‘Aren’t you going to take her pulse?’ But I knew she was gone.”
Coworkers remember Ewald as being the nurse you wanted to have if you were in the hospital: funny, not afraid to ruffle feathers. Compassionate. Fernandez says when her dog was sick, Ewald hooked him up to IVs and nursed him back to health.
Here's a pic of Ewald nursing Fernandez's dog, including hooking him up to IV 4x a day. She was a huge animal lover, Fernandez says, who was passionate about gardening, traveling, and nursing. "Her birthday is tomorrow," Fernandez says.
