JEANNETTE, Pa. (KDKA) – It’s Christmas Day when families normally gather to celebrate, but like 2020, this holiday looks different for most people.
“It’s usually my sister, my brother-in-law, my mother and my father. We have dinner together, like on Christmas Eve, we make pasta because I’m Italian “, said Sarah Casario.
Casario is 26 years old, and this Christmas he is in Hempfield Hospital in AHN with oxygen fighting COVID-19.
“I started to have symptoms, fever, chills, nausea, practically every existing COVID symptom. Everyone likes to say it’s like the flu, but I promise it’s not. It’s ten times worse, “Casario said.
With no underlying conditions and no idea where she contracted the virus, she remains strong for her family.
“My mother works with patients with COVID, she is a quality abstractor, so she knows what is happening and only positive COVID people work on it, so it’s hard to see me going through something she’s so familiar with. It puts your family in a lot, ”Casario said.
Video calls and window visits are the new traditions for her family. As it aims for a complete recovery, this virus has taught Casario a lot.
“Don’t think that you won’t be because that’s how I felt I never would be, it won’t happen to me and that’s how it was and is the worst I’ve ever felt in my life and it’s a serious thing.” , said Casario.
Casario told KDKA that she will spend five days in hospital and hopes to be released early next week.