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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 ">https://tinyurl.com/w6joyby&q...
Her neighbor, Alexis Fernandez, says it was frustrating that Ewald said she couldn& #39;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& #39;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& #39;t respond to a text from Fernandez on Tuesday night, but Fernandez could see Ewald& #39;s lights were on, TV was on, assumed she& #39;d fallen asleep. (3/?)
Weds morning, Fernandez & a Henry Ford nurse doing a wellness check, went to Ewald& #39;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.
