Louisiana Family Forced to Say Goodbye to Their Hero After He Lost the Battle Wit

Louisiana Family Forced to Say Goodbye to Their Hero After He Lost the Battle

3 the covid 19 pandemic has stripped away the normal ways of saying our last goodbyes, before and after death.

Containing the virus means no deathbed visits, and no funerals.

A new orleans woman - forced to say goodbye to her dying father while quarantined at home..

News 1's cassie schirm has her story... cassie schirm the covid 19 virus has robbed many families from one last hug or kiss goodbye denise ferraci says that is hardest part of losing her farther to this virus..

Having to see him through a phone before he took his last breath."i said i love you dad about a million times.

And he kept saying i love you bigger nisi i love you bigger.

He blew me a kiss nobody should have to go through that."that was the last time denise feraci would talk to her 79 year old father dennis richard as his life was taken by covid 19."it was just that much of a rapid decline.

It just suffocates you i guess your lungs just shut down."no hugs or kissing goodbye just a facetime call.

"we went from dad was thinking dad was gonna be home in a couple days too w're never going to see him again.

"even though they said their goodbyes her and her family are still in shock."i's unbelievable becaus my dad was litterly our hero"richard was a vet, a retired detective and a man who loved his family.video of richard with his great granddaughter"he was amazing grandfather great grandfather fatherto see him at that point was just devastating.

You know helpless"this was something they never thought would happened to their family.

"i woul've certainly never thought that he would get it for my mom and get it.

They do't go anywhere... except for my house church and tha's about" but now this is the hard new reality that is shattering families all across louisiana.

"when you go to the hospital you ca't go with him it does't matter how old or how young they are the're gonna be alone."now the family ca't get any closure as his wife his daughter and her husband are all now positive for the virus."we ca't even honor this amazing man right now in a memorial service because he ca't get together.

We ca't support each other."with covid 1's death toll rising each day feraci does't want her father to be just another number."he deserves to have his story told.

He did't deserve to die alone.

No one does.if my family can quarantine right now and not break it as much as we need to be together i think anybody can.

I's not too much to ask to stay at home "now the family is just left heartbroken with only memories.

Video do him singingmemories of a man who feraci says still should have more time to spend with his family."i love you bigger daddy ... crying ... i love you bigger."cassieferaci told me she hopes by sharing her fathers story and her famil's heartbreak it will make people think twice before going out and about if not for you but for others who ca't fight this virus.

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