The general manager of a theater in Massachusetts who survived COVID-19 but lost loved ones to the coronavirus is urging people to take the pandemic seriously.Karen Nascembeni, the general manager of the North Shore Music Theatre in Beverly, and her husband, Steven Richard, both became sick in March, when little was known about the disease."My husband and I slowly started declining," Nascembeni said. "It was probably the sickest we've ever been. We just didn't feel right."The Lynnfield couple went to the hospital on Saint Patrick's Day, and it would be the last moment they would share together. "When he got out of the car, he turned around, he looked at me, he blew me a kiss and he said, 'I love you,'" Nascembeni said. "I was like a school girl. I looked at him, because it was so sweet the way he did it, and I said, 'I love you, too.'"Nascembeni and Richard both began to decline once they were admitted to the hospital."So I just slowly got worse and worse until I was on oxygen, then intubated and then in a medically-induced coma for 31 days."Richard and his father both died of COVID-19 while Nascembeni was in a coma. She awoke to the heartbreaking news and was also informed that everyone working for the North Shore Music Theatre was laid off."You wake up and it's like, 'Your husband is gone. Your father-in-law is gone,'" Nascembeni said. "I had to physically deal with my own ailments and then not having a job on top of it."Nascembeni was able to recover from COVID-19 and is finding strength in gratitude while trying to heal from her emotional pain."I try not to focus on what I don't have and what I'm not going to have, but the gift that he was to me for 30 years," she said."He was probably one of the kindest souls I've ever known."Production at the North Shore Music Theatre is still on hold due to the pandemic, but the community is showing support for Nascembeni and her late husband.Nascembeni hopes that people will continue to wear face masks in an effort to save lives as well as jobs.