Mom-daughter nurses who had coronavirus get a ‘drive-by’ thanks from coworkers

Mom and daughter nurses from the identical Lengthy Island hospital each caught the coronavirus — and on Saturday, their colleagues shocked them with an early Mom’s Day “drive-by” thanks.

Employees on the Lengthy Island Jewish Valley Stream Hospital drove by the house of mother Luz Naranjo, 61 — who remains to be recovering — on Saturday afternoon.

They introduced indicators of assist, confetti and even carried out a lawn-side dance to specific their love.

“I’m simply so joyful she will get to see them — even when it’s only for a number of seconds. She misses them they usually miss her,” mentioned Naranjo’s daughter, Catherine, 24, who additionally works on the Valley Stream hospital.

Luz was intubated for 10 days with the virus in late March and has been at dwelling recovering since. Her whole household had grow to be sick with the bug after Catherine first contracted the virus in mid-March whereas working on the hospital.

At that time, the coronavirus testing was not performed on website, and Catherine mentioned she ended up infecting her mother and father, brother and sister as she awaited the outcomes over the course of about two weeks.

The Naranjos are grateful Luz is on the trail to restoration after the well being scare and have been appreciative of all of the assist from the hospital.

“We have been devastated — unhappy to say that we thought the worst,” Catherine mentioned when the household heard of Luz’s intubation.

“And from there we simply wanted prayers. And everybody within the LIJ Valley Stream neighborhood referred to as me and mentioned they’re right here for us and that they have been praying for us, and we by no means felt alone throughout that complete course of.”