A Texas respiratory therapist died of COVID-19. Her daughter is turning grief into action. – Thetcanada

Isabelle Papadimitriou was one year away from retiring after having worked for nearly 30 years as a respiratory therapist when the coronavirus pandemic started killing people in her home state, Texas.

Her son, who lived with her, tried to get his mother to retire early, but she refused.

She said: “My co-workers need me. My hospital needs me. I’ll be OK,” her daughter, Fiana Tulip, recalled. “She said she was stronger than an ox, and we believed her, because we knew she was…