Collected Item: “Michele Gable Oral History, 2021/03/21”
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Michele Gable Oral History 2021/03/21
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Audio Interview
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Michele Gable is a wife and mother living in a small suburb of Phoenix, Arizona. In her oral history, Michele reflects upon life before COVID-19 and shares how the pandemic has affected both her home and work life. She highlights her experience contracting a severe case of COVID-19 and how she navigated being around her family throughout her sickness. As an insurance underwriter, Michele describes the advantages of working from home while being ill and how her company handled her sick leave after the virus evolved into COVID-19 pneumonia. She shares the ongoing medical issues she still suffers from months after initially recovering as well as her thoughts on the COVID-19 vaccine as well as wearing masks.
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severecase, fear, ventilator, family, children, pneumonia, heart, vaccine
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Robin Keagle
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2021-03-20