Not knowing what was happening with Amanda2 during and after her hospital stay caused stress and conflict amongst her family members.
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So, when I got home, a couple of days getting home from the hospital, I think because my family didn’t have a whole lot of knowledge about what was going on, there was some stress and conflict and emotions were really big just because they didn’t know what was going on still, even after I’d been in the hospital and let out. And, again, I don’t know if that breakdown was because they could not come into the hospital and sit down and talk with the doctor and I. I don’t know, right. I don’t know if it would have been different if we weren’t in the middle of a pandemic too, I don’t know.
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