\u201cI can\u2019t afford to breakdown now, my mum needs me.\u201d<\/p>\n
These are the heartbreaking words of a woman who has lost her sister and father to coronavirus.<\/p>\n
The deadly disease has taken the lives of thousands across the UK.<\/p>\n
In Cheshire there are over 1,800 positive cases of coronavirus and 285 people have tragically died in hospital from the disease.<\/p>\n
Many people are losing their lives while their distraught families can only grieve in isolation.<\/p>\n
For one family the coronavirus pandemic has had a major impact.<\/p>\n
The Gapare family have lost a sister and a father and now their mum is in hospital with suspected Covid-19 symptoms.<\/p>\n
Gillian Gapare passed away at her home in Cheshire on the morning of April 4.<\/p>\n
The 28-year-old has been described as a bubbly, bright and loving woman by her family.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe would do everything and anything for her family,\u201d said sister, Glenda, 24.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe\u2019s now gone but she is still my world, my support system, my best friend, my second mother even and she really felt the full force of how cruel this life is.\u201d<\/p>\n
Gillian, who suffered from neuropathic pain and lymphedema, tested positive for coronavirus after previously showing symptoms.<\/p>\n
She was informed by NHS 111 to self-isolate and keep away from her mum Angelina Abigail, 55, and younger sister, Glory, 15.<\/p>\n
But her symptoms worsened and she collapsed in her bedroom at the family\u2019s Barnton home.<\/p>\n
Glenda, who lives in Manchester, has told Cheshire Live of the devastating moment.<\/p>\n
She said: \u201cMy little sister Glory was holding Gillian\u2019s head up as mum began to do CPR until the paramedics came.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut they couldn\u2019t get her back.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy mum carried on doing CPR even when the paramedics left and the coroner arrived \u2013 she was begging them not to take her.<\/p>\n
\u201cI spoke to Gillian that morning, she said she was ill but she downplayed it, she was laughing with me on the phone.\u201d<\/p>\n
Just four days after Gillian had passed away, Angelina became unwell and was taken to Leighton Hospital in Crewe.<\/p>\n
Glenda believes her mum\u2019s symptoms worsened giving her dying daughter CPR.<\/p>\n
But the sadness has not ended there for the family.<\/p>\n
As their mum entered hospital they learnt that their father, Guide Gapare, 56, who lives in Liverpool, had become extremely unwell and tragically lost his life.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe died last night (April 20) in hospital, there was nothing we could do,\u201d said Glenda.<\/p>\n
The sisters have said their father was refused ventilation because he had underlying health conditions.<\/p>\n
Now Glenda and Glory have been left alone with their grief as they pray for their mum.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is devastating,\u201d said Glenda.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut because I am the big sister I have to look after Glory. She has been having panic attacks and has not coped well at all.<\/p>\n
\u201cI also need to be strong for mum otherwise it may slow down her recovery.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe is in hospital and has lost her child and the father of her kids.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are taking one day at a time, we don\u2019t know how we are going to get over this.\u201d<\/p>\n
The family have set up a Go Fund Me Page which was initially created to help cover costs of Gillian\u2019s burial but they\u2019re now organising two funerals.<\/p>\n
Glenda said: \u201cThese are unprecedented times so we can\u2019t have a normal funeral for Gillian or for my father.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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