“If we can save more lives and families’ lives, then this is the gift that she left for us to deliver.”
Wendell decided they should hold off on their vaccinations. It was a choice that cost her her life: Instead of attending her wedding, which was supposed to be on Aug. 21, her family is now planning her funeral.
"There wasn't anybody she wasn't friends with," Samantha's mother, Jeaneen Wendell, seen here with her daughter, said.What was going to be a time of celebration instead turned into a harrowing six weeks as the family watched Wendell, an outgoing woman who loved animals and easily became friends with everyone she met, struggle with Covid-19, they said.
She and Eskew got vaccination appointments for the end of July. In the meantime, wedding preparations continued: dress fittings, menu tastings, and a bachelorette party in Nashville, Tennessee. Doctors tried with limited success to stabilize her. On Aug. 16, five days before she was supposed to get married, she was put on a ventilator. The wedding was postponed, with hopes it could happen later in the year.
“She had so much influence in everything that I do,” he said, recalling a time when he went to buy groceries earlier this week, and found himself unsure what to get, since it had always been a joint task he shared with Wendell. “We didn’t really ever do anything without the other in mind.”The myth that Covid vaccines can affect fertility is pervasive.
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