And every person that passed away, it impacted me a lot,” Vallee explained. “I just started crying because I knew that it was real…and I knew what was going to happen. Vallee says the death of the first resident hit her particularly hard. “But having to… phone them to say, 'Your loved one has COVID,' and you had to call them and say they were getting worse… it was very difficult,” Jamison said, describing the outbreak as “heart-wrenching.” “For the most part, they understood the restrictions,” Jamison told CTV News. Jamison says the separation of residents from their family was hard. So many staff would fall ill, the home hired residents' family members to help with cleaning and delivering meals. Some workers moved into hotels to isolate. “I was off for two weeks with COVID and every time I heard another resident passed away, it was horrible,” she recalled. The disease infected both residents and staff, including Jamison. “We were constantly debriefing with each other and trying to figure out, why is it still spreading?” “We took all the precautions,” said her co-worker, Debbie Jamison, who also works as a resident care co-ordinator. “It came in like a ghost and it just went through so fast,” she said in an interview reflecting back on a year since a public health emergency was declared in B.C. “We tried so hard to keep this virus out,” said Mary Jane Vallee, a resident care co-ordinator at Menno Home. And then suddenly, COVID-19 found its way inside the Abbotsford care facility.
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