The patient was a young woman in her early 30s.

She had diabetes, high blood pressure, and a twin sister.

Grover Nicodemus Street remembers that part of it well.

She had a twin sister who would always call me every day and she would tell her her sister

that she's the strongest person that she knows, even though the patient was intubated, sedated,

paralyzed.

These people, I think they could still hear, you know, oddly enough.

Grover's a travel nurse.

She spent this past year working in COVID wards all over the country.

And that patient of his, she suffered mostly alone, like millions of people have in hospital

rooms all over the world.

And I would go in her room.

I would put my hand on her shoulder.

I would sing her church hymns, you know, I would grow up in a church and she was a Christian

and her sister said that she would love for me to pray with her.

And I would do that just for her sister and for the patient.

Grover says that woman was the most memorable patient he's had, not just over the course

of the pandemic, over the course of his whole career.

She was my most memorable because she was the first patient that I have ever had in 20

plus years as a nurse that died on me.

The first, but not the last.

I have seen, you know, probably 3000 deaths throughout the year.

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