COPING WITH COVID GRIEF
Tsholofelo Mosupi would have loved to visit her father in hospital, hold and caress his hand and perhaps have their usual lighthearted chat in what would have been her last memories of him that she would cherish forever. But she could not.
“We could only speak to my father on the phone for the first week while he was in hospital. But his condition later deteriorated and communication with him stopped. We could only phone the hospital and ask how he was doing. Until [we got] that dreadful call from a nurse that no one ever wants to receive: ‘We tried all our best to resuscitate him, but we could not save him’,” Mosupi said.
As if having not
