"To those who don't believe, tell them to call me. To young Americans, the grieving mother's message is, "Wear a mask, social distance, and most importantly, stay home. "You're in a state of shock," Mary Jane Fagan said. 18, Adeline suffered a massive brain hemorrhage. "She wasn't super coherent," Mary Jane Fagan said, but Adeline managed to open her eyes and kiss her mother. Machines everywhere keeping her alive," her mother said. Adeline was put on a ventilator and on extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO), a specialized form of life support.īy mid-September, Adeline was no longer COVID-19 positive and seemed to be improving, and her parents were allowed to visit. Within days, her oxygen levels plummeted. Just seven days later, she tested positive for COVID-19, her parents said. On July 1, Adeline started a rotation in the chaotic emergency department at HCA Houston Healthcare West. When the pandemic erupted, Adeline was especially nervous due to her history of upper respiratory infections, including pneumonia and bronchitis, said her mother, Mary Jane Fagan. "Her father would routinely drop everything to come for a weekend, or a week, and sit side-by-side with Adeline as she prepared for an exam."Īdeline chose obstetrics and gynecology as her specialty and last year she moved to Houston to begin her residency. Marshall, associate dean and director of medical admissions and assistant professor of psychiatry, said in a statement. "She learned hard work and dedication from her family," Dr. The upstate New York native excelled through high school and college, and in 2019, she graduated from the University at Buffalo School of Medicine. "Ever since then she wanted to be a doctor so she could help people and teach people like she was taught by that doctor," he said, overcome with emotion.Īdeline pushed through the neurological disease with intense physical therapy. The precocious child's career choice was cemented at 10 years old when she suffered reflex sympathetic dystrophy, a neuro-inflammatory disorder, and her doctor talked to her "as if she was an adult," her father said. "She ran around with her little Fisher-Price stethoscope on." "She always wanted to be a doctor ever since she was little," her father, Brant Fagan, told ABC News. More than 1,700 miles away, Adeline Fagan, a 28-year-old doctor, was battling COVID-19 for two months before she died on Sept. "You can have everything you ever wanted and a random virus takes it from you." 'She was frightened beyond belief' And it will not ask your name, your age, where you're from, your privileges." "When you're with someone for so long, it's hard to believe that they're gone," she said.Īs the pandemic rages on, Madeline Pena said, "you can believe that it's not gonna get to you.
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