'I miss her': Mother talks about losing her daughter to the delta variant of COVID-19
Tricia Jones, 45, died June 9
Tricia Jones, 45, died June 9
Tricia Jones, 45, died June 9
A Grain Valley, Missouri, mother talks about losing her daughter to the delta variant of COVID-19.
She said she is speaking in hopes of preventing another family from experiencing this pain.
Tricia Jones, 45, lived a mile from her mother Debora Carmichael. The two visited often.
"I still find myself wanting to text her and then I'm like, 'What am I doing?'" Carmichael said.
She said Jones was extremely close to her children as well. They loved drives in the rain,
surprise trips to a store or restaurant and attending Blue Springs Christian Church.
"Any opportunity she got to hang out with her kids and do something with them, she was all about that," Carmichael said.
"She never stopped fighting for her kids," said Jones' daughter, Adriana.
When Carmichael said she felt sick after her first COVID-19 vaccination, Jones decided to skip it, and hope for the best.
"She was also thinking, 'Yes. You know, I might get it, but I'll take my chances because you can recover,'" Carmichael said.
"We were like, 'Mom, please just go and get it,'" Adriana Jones said.
Her family said that after contracting the delta variant of COVID-19, she died June 9.
"I was actually the one who felt her last actual breath -- one without the ventilator," Adriana Jones said. "And it hurt."
They hope no one else goes through this. The family encourages others to get the vaccine, and if not, wear a mask and socially distance no matter how inconvenient.
"I miss her every day. I miss the everyday stuff, ordinary stuff that you do with people when they're in your life," Carmichael said.