{"id":21592,"date":"2020-03-20T20:22:16","date_gmt":"2020-03-20T20:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cmshub.wpengine.com\/?p=308597"},"modified":"2024-11-03T15:16:49","modified_gmt":"2024-11-03T15:16:49","slug":"covid-19-takes-the-life-of-a-widowed-mother-of-6-who-survived-breast-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/covid-19-takes-the-life-of-a-widowed-mother-of-6-who-survived-breast-cancer\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 Takes the Life of a Widowed Mother of 6 Who Survived Breast Cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"

COVID-19, a new strain of the coronavirus, has swept across the world in the last few months, infecting about 270,000 people to date and killing well over 10,000 of them. For the most part, these deaths have been elderly people who have lived long full lives, but occasionally, the virus takes the life of someone younger, particularly those who have underlying health conditions, which can cause complications.<\/span>Sadly, 42-year-old Sundee Rutter<\/a>, from Snohomish County, Washington, was one of those cases. The single mother of six lost her husband several years ago, and as if that weren\u2019t enough to go through in one lifetime, she also developed stage IV metastatic breast cancer and survived it.<\/span>\"\"<\/span>Photo: Facebook\/Sundee Rutter<\/a><\/span>
\n<\/span>But when Sundee came down with COVID-19, she didn\u2019t have the same luck she\u2019d had with cancer, despite being a fighter by nature. She was always careful about germs because of her compromised immunity from breast cancer treatment, but she was determined to continue working to support her family, even after the virus showed up in the area.<\/span>When Sundee initially began feeling ill, she went to the hospital but was sent back home. She was not admitted to Providence Medical Center<\/a> in Everett until a few days later, when she began to have trouble breathing and her son brought her back to the hospital. And by then it was too late.<\/span>About two weeks after Sundee contracted the virus, it took her life.<\/span>Sundee\u2019s children range from middle school to college ages, and now they\u2019ve been left orphaned and vulnerable. Luckily, however, their community has come together to rally around them during this difficult time.<\/span>
\n<\/span>\"\"<\/span>Photo: Adobe Stock\/sdecoret<\/a><\/span>\u201cShe was a wonderful person, and there\u2019s not many like her out there anymore. Great friend, great mother, great wife, she was a wonderful person,\u201d says Jessica Harris<\/a>, Sundee\u2019s best friend. \u201cWe\u2019re pretty devastated; she beat cancer and lost the battle to coronavirus? It\u2019s just crazy.\u201d<\/span>Jessica says that until her friend\u2019s situation became serious, she and most of the people around her treated COVID-19 as if it were nothing to worry about and would blow over soon. \u201cAnd then when I got the news of her, I was like \u2018Oh my God, this is not something to play with, this is serious\u2019 and now my outlook is different,\u201d she recalls.<\/span>
\n<\/span>\"\"<\/span>Photo: Adobe Stock\/rcfotostock<\/a><\/span>Now Jessica is working on helping the children get their lives back together. \u201cHer children need somebody to help them, because the oldest is going to be leaving college and trying to find housing so he can take care of his siblings,\u201d she says. \u201cAnd that\u2019s really tough.\u201d<\/span>A GoFundMe<\/a> Page has been set up in the Ross-Rutter family\u2019s name to help the kids get through this rough time, just as Sundee was dedicated to helping people during her life.<\/span>\u201cShe was the kindest person you would ever meet,\u201d Jessica said. \u201cShe was always there for everyone. And I will miss her.\u201d<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0Share on Facebook<\/a><\/span>
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COVID-19, a new strain of the coronavirus, has swept across the world in the last few months, infecting about 270,000 people to date and killing well over 10,000 of them. For the most part, these deaths have been elderly people who have lived long full lives, but occasionally, the virus takes the life of someone […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21593,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21592"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44314,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21592\/revisions\/44314"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}