Kay Lovick is finally home.
She and her husband, Cliff Lovick, were separated for the first time in their almost 46 years of marriage when Kay was admitted to the hospital Feb. 4 after being diagnosed with COVID-19. Cliff came down with it too, though his infection was less severe. No one knows how the couple contracted the virus.
But on Tuesday, Kay s fight paid off, and the staff at Cape Fear Valley Medical Center rolled her out of the hospital and into her husband s arms. It was heaven, Kay said Thursday afternoon. It was just heaven.
The couple met in their 10th-grade biology class at Cape Fear Valley High School in 1973. They started dating when the school year ended and got married in 1975. From their union came two daughters: Jasie Landeros and Rita Parrish.