Shelbyville woman regrets vaccine apprehension after husband, mother-in-law die of COVID-19

>> THAT WILL ALWAYBES IN THE BACK OF MY MIND. IIF HAD GOTTEN THE SHOT, MY MOTHER-IN-LAW WOULD ILSTL BE ALIVE. >> TAMMY CLARK IS HEARTBROKEN, THE WIFE, MOTHER AND GRANDMOERTH IS LEFT TO WONDER IF SHE IS REASON BOTH HER MOTHER-IN-WLA AND HER HUSBAND OF 41 YESAR CONTRACTED COVID AND DIED. >> IMELDA I BROUGHT IT HOME. BECAUSE THERE IS NO OTHER WAY SHE COULD HAVE GOT IT. AND MY HUSBAND. WHATS I SAD AS I WAS PLANNING ON GETTING THE SHOT THE NEXT WKEE AND THEN IT WAS TOO LATE. VII:CK -- >> CLARK WHO WORKS FOR KROGER WHO WAS OFFERED THE VACCINE BUT WAS AFRAID TO GET IT, A DECISI SONHE NOW REGRETS. >> PEOPLE SAY YOU GET SICK YOU GET BLOODCLOTS ALL KINDSF O CRAZINESS WHEN PEOPLE PUT THAT STUFF IN YOUR HEAD AND YOU GET TO THINKING ABOUT IT ANDAY S MAYBE I DON’T NEED THE SHOT LLWE YEAH, YOU DO. >> JUST 5 DAYS AFTER LOSING HER MOTHER IN LAW TO COVID, TAMMY AND HER HUSBAND CARL WERE BOTH HOSPITALIZ.ED CARL WAS PUT ON A VENTILATOR IMMEDIATELY AND DIED WITHIN HOURS. TAMMY WHO WAS ALSO PUT ON A VENTILATOR WAS IN THE ICU FOR 30 DAYS BUT SURVIVED. SHE SAYS HER GRIEF AND PAIN AT TIMES IS OVERWHELMG.IN >> WE NEVER GOT TO SEE EACH OTHER THAT’S WHAT HURTS I DIDN’T GET TO TELL HIM HOW I LOVED HIM. >> CLARK IS NOW TELLING ANYONE WHO WILL LISTEN TOET G THE VACCINE. >> I EVEN SENT PICTURES OF ME BEING ON THE VENT AND EVERYTHING BUT THEY SAID I AM AFRAID I SAID WHAT IS THERE TO BE AFRAID OF I SAID I WAS AFRAID TOO AND LOOK WHERE I WAS AT I ALMOST DIED. AND THE THOUGHT OF THAT LES HER TO AN EVEN SCARIER THOUGHT. >> I WOULD HAVE LEFTY CHILDREN, MY GRANDKIDS. I DON’T KNOW WTHA MY KIDS WOULD HAVE DONE IF I HAD PASSED AWAY. THE DAY THEY WERE BURYING THE GRANDMOTHER’S FUNER,AL THEY GET THE CALL THEIR DADDY PASDSE AWAY RIGHT AS A FUNERAL WAS GETTING READY TO START. >> CLARK SAYS AFTER SO MUCH SSLO SHE WILL NOW BEING GETTING THE VACCINE AS SOON AS DOCTORS AL

After the death of her husband and mother-in-law to COVID-19, a Shelbyville woman is left to wonder "what if?""It will always be in the back of my mind. If I had got the shot, would she still be alive and so would my husband," Tammy Clark said.Clark is heartbroken.The wife, mother and grandmother is left to wonder if she is the reason her mother-in-law and her husband of 41 years contracted COVID-19 and died."I know I brought it home because there is no other way she could have got it, and my husband, and what is sad is I was planning on getting the shot the next week, and it was too late," Clark said through tears.Clark, who works for Kroger, was offered the vaccine but was afraid to get it. It's a decision she now regrets.More on vaccines: Louisville area doctors stress importance of COVID-19 booster shots ahead of winter"People say you get sick, you get blood clots, all kinds of craziness. When people put that stuff in your head and you get to thinking about it and think, 'Maybe I don't need the shot,' well yeah, you do," she said.Just five days after losing her 80-year-old mother-in-law to COVID-19, Tammy and her husband, 61-year-old Carl, were both hospitalized.Carl was put on a ventilator immediately and died within hours. Tammy, who was also put on a ventilator, was in the ICU for 30 days but survived."We never got to see each other. That's what hurts. I didn't get to tell him how I loved him," Clark said.Clark is now telling anyone who will listen to get the vaccine.Continuing coverage: University of Kentucky participating in Moderna vaccine trials for children 6 months to 12 years old"I even sent pictures of me, you know, being on the vent and everything, but they said, 'I am afraid,' I said, 'What is there to be afraid of?' I said I was afraid too, and look where I was at, I almost died," she said.The thought of that leads her to an even scarier thought."I would have left my children, my grandkids. I don't know what my kids would have done if I passed away. I mean the day they were burying their grandmother, they get the call that their daddy passed away right as the funeral was getting ready to start," Clark said.Clark said after so much loss, she will now be getting the vaccine as soon as doctors clear her after her battle with COVID-19.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. —

After the death of her husband and mother-in-law to COVID-19, a Shelbyville woman is left to wonder "what if?"

"It will always be in the back of my mind. If I had got the shot, would she still be alive and so would my husband," Tammy Clark said.

Clark is heartbroken.

The wife, mother and grandmother is left to wonder if she is the reason her mother-in-law and her husband of 41 years contracted COVID-19 and died.

"I know I brought it home because there is no other way she could have got it, and my husband, and what is sad is I was planning on getting the shot the next week, and it was too late," Clark said through tears.

Clark, who works for Kroger, was offered the vaccine but was afraid to get it. It's a decision she now regrets.

More on vaccines: Louisville area doctors stress importance of COVID-19 booster shots ahead of winter

"People say you get sick, you get blood clots, all kinds of craziness. When people put that stuff in your head and you get to thinking about it and think, 'Maybe I don't need the shot,' well yeah, you do," she said.

Just five days after losing her 80-year-old mother-in-law to COVID-19, Tammy and her husband, 61-year-old Carl, were both hospitalized.

Carl was put on a ventilator immediately and died within hours. Tammy, who was also put on a ventilator, was in the ICU for 30 days but survived.

"We never got to see each other. That's what hurts. I didn't get to tell him how I loved him," Clark said.

Clark is now telling anyone who will listen to get the vaccine.

Continuing coverage: University of Kentucky participating in Moderna vaccine trials for children 6 months to 12 years old

"I even sent pictures of me, you know, being on the vent and everything, but they said, 'I am afraid,' I said, 'What is there to be afraid of?' I said I was afraid too, and look where I was at, I almost died," she said.

The thought of that leads her to an even scarier thought.

"I would have left my children, my grandkids. I don't know what my kids would have done if I passed away. I mean the day they were burying their grandmother, they get the call that their daddy passed away right as the funeral was getting ready to start," Clark said.

Clark said after so much loss, she will now be getting the vaccine as soon as doctors clear her after her battle with COVID-19.

Shelbyville woman regrets vaccine apprehension after husband, mother-in-law die of COVID-19

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