You're listening to the Tudor Dixon Podcast in the Clay and Buck Podcast Network.

Welcome to the Tudor Dixon Podcast.

I'm Tudor Dixon and I'm excited to have you join us for the

podcast where we want to focus on true stories of Americans from all walks of

life. As many of you know I ran for governor in the state of Michigan last year and I became frustrated

with what I was seeing in my state so as I traveled around I heard stories from

people who were desperate also to write those wrongs a lot of that connected to the pandemic and many of those

stories were actually about people who had lost loved ones and the pain of

not being there by their side during that time. And that resonated with me because I actually

lived through this pain myself. My grandmother died alone in a nursing home, but interestingly it wasn't

COVID that ended her life. She was suffering from a broken heart and so many people that I talked

to Michigan went through the same thing. So in Michigan our nursing homes were locked

down and then folks were actually allowed to go outside

and meet family members outside but then they locked down again and I remember

one of those last conversations I had with my grandmother she looked at me and she

said I don't think I can do this anymore.

And you know, when you're younger, you don't really get what that means because I hadn't been

locked alone and she was locked away alone. And so when she was locked down for the second time the nursing

home called us and even though she had been really healthy they said she's

just going downhill we know it's not going to be long now and truly it was just

dying of a broken heart and I remember looking through the window with my girls we

were holding my girls up to the window to say goodbye to her and looking down the row and seeing families down the row

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