Covid infection – Edmonton in a Time of Covid

Tracy Patience: busy executive director lives with post covid symptoms

Tracy Patience, Executive Director at Amity House Dickensfield

She described the emotional impact of knowing that society considered her father’s life collateral damage. “Yeah. Most of us will survive… But my dad. You know, when people say ‘most of us’, they’re not the most. My dad is wonderful. You assholes.” She added.

Vanessa Phillips and Val Parr: A Daughter Who Contracted Covid and a Mother Who Witnessed It

Phillips self-isolated away from her husband and her son in her family’s unfinished basement. For the first days of her sickness, she slept for nine days straight, only waking to text her husband or go to the bathroom. She showered three times in those days and ate nothing. She laughed, “I would text photos of Kleenex and Tylenol.”

Acknowledgments

Land Acknowledgement

I express my gratitude for the opportunity to live and work on Treaty 6 territory - the traditional territory of the Cree, Saulteaux, Blackfoot, Métis, Dene and Nakota Sioux.

I hope this work honours the ancestors of this land and enriches the lives of our descendants.

Funding

Edmonton in the Time of Covid is supported by the Edmonton Heritage Council and the City of Edmonton.

Thank you also to the Rat Creek Press for their support.

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