Lima, Kaitlin2020-11-092020-11-092020-09-05https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12588/167This item was created by a UTSA undergraduate student during the Fall 2020 semester as a part of a collaborative, interdisciplinary project designed to gather, create and preserve the UTSA stories of the present for future study.In the early months of the pandemic, I experienced loss through second hand experiences as family friends passed away. Soon enough, I experienced the pain first hand as my grandmother passed right before Mother's Day. This excerpt describes my experience with death during COVID-19 and the fear and anxiety that grew.en-USAttribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United Stateshttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/us/COVID-19deathgrandparentspandemicundergraduate student worksFirst Pains of COVID-19