Florida couple Lisa and Ron Steadman started feeling sick on July 30 and tested positive for COVID. The next day, Lisa felt dizzy and passed out and was taken to the hospital. She called her 55-year-old every day to see if he was doing okay. Eight days later, Ron told her that his phone wasn’t holding a charge. She got the police to go by and check on him when she couldn’t reach him the following day. The officers found him just fine and neighbors said they found him walking their three small dogs.

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Next two days, Lisa couldn’t reach him and she thought his phone wasn’t working. On August 11, she was finally released from the hospital. However, when she reached home, it felt like she walked into a horror movie. 

“I Ubered home and walked into a nightmare,” Steadman wrote in a Facebook post. “I got into the house and sitting in a chair by our bedroom door I heard the doggies that we have in there with him. I never heard him. I…opened it up and found Ron had passed away. He had been there we are figuring since Monday. The dogs were almost gone from lack of food and water. I got them taken care of as I was on the phone with 911.”

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Lisa said her husband’s body had begun to decompose — a sight that still haunts her.

“I wish I had never seen him like that. That’s all I see now is him laying there. I can’t get that out of my head,” she wrote. 

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Police and doctors arrived at the scene and confirmed that he died of COVID-19.

“When the ambulance and police got here, they were talking to Ron’s doctor. They don’t know if he had a heart attack from coughing or an aneurysm from coughing. They don’t know if he got pneumonia,” she said.