“I beg you to please read this post carefully,” read the post’s first few words. Ramirez mentioned that the post was the most intimate post he had had to make in his life.
He expressed his difficulty in coping with the loss of four very close people in his life to the virus. The accompanying pictures chronicled how the virus added pain upon pain to him.
Ramirez revealed that the miracle he hoped would happen didn’t. He lost his uncle and aunt within a matter of hours.
His aunt, Lucy, died on Saturday, followed by his uncle, Guillermo, who passed away on Sunday.
The horror continued on Monday. He woke up to the news that Rafael, a dear friend and relative, had also succumbed to the disease following months of COVID-related complications.
These tragedies occurred just about a month after he lost his beloved grandmother, Bertha, to COVID. Ramirez also lost his Venezuelan agent and dear friend, Laureano, four months ago.
He then expressed the excruciating pain he was feeling at the moment. He was feeling a void in his chest and a crippling headache.
But he expressed his determination to not let these horrors affect him. “These are waves of hopelessness that I refuse to let take root in my soul,” Ramirez said.
