Vanessa Strunk is a self-described “boring old lady” who goes to work, shops online and heads home at the end of the day.
A small business owner who runs the Rockville, Maryland-based Green Diva Designs firm, the 58-year-old said she had been taking precautions since the coronavirus pandemic hit in March.
But she never expected to be in a local intensive care unit hearing a doctor tell her that they were doing all they could but that they were hitting the limits of what medicine alone could do.
“I knew at that moment, either I’m going to live or I’m going to die,” Strunk said.