Sundee Rutter survived breast cancer in January before succumbing to the novel coronavirus on March 16. She leaves behind six children aged 13 to 24.
SEATTLE, WA - MARCH 17: Nurses process a sample for COVID-19 after a patient was screened at an appointment-only, drive-up clinic set up by the University of Washington Medical Center Northwest Outpatient Medical Center on March 17, 2020 in Seattle, Washington. The clinic was set up to provide additional screening capacity, support personal protective equipment conservation efforts and help reduce the number of patients entering healthcare facilities for testing during the coronavirus outbreak.
"What me and my siblings got to do was go back to her room and we got to stand outside. And what [hospital staff] did was they take a walkie-talkie and they placed the walkie-talkie right by her bedside on the pillow," Elijah Ross-Rutter, whose mother Sundee Rutter succumbed to complications from the novel coronavirus March 16, said during an interview on CNN."We got to say our final words and goodbyes to our mom.
"It's kind of hard...It's your last words and it's hard to think of what you really want to say. It's a moment that nobody really ever wants to be in. I told her I loved her. I told her everything is going to be alright with the kids. Us older siblings are going to make sure everything is okay with them and that they're going to grow up to be some adults my mom would want them to be," Ross-Rutter said of the heart-wrenching final words he spoke to his mother.
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