Despite looking out for one another, a Texas family is devastated by COVID-19 — Houston Chronicle
“Before he was admitted to a Fort Bend County hospital, Alfonso Rodríguez Jr.’s dad had been complaining of an upset stomach for about a week.
The 86-year-old went to the emergency room, describing bouts of diarrhea and constipation.
He wondered: Could I have the virus?
At the ER, the elder Alfonso Rodríguez was told he likely had a twisted bowel and was sent home.
But days later he was admitted to the hospital and learned that he had COVID-19. Then the unthinkable happened — the disease tore through their family, claiming the lives of Alfonso Rodríguez Jr.’s father, his mother, Porfiria, 87, and his younger brother, Rudy, 55, in less than two weeks.”