![]() ![]() And then he’d look at me.” And that he just - like he would say, “Hey, dad, are you OK?” And he’d go, “Yeah.” nancy updike And he said that his bed was covered in sweat. ![]() At one point, he was just sort of trying to pour milk - or not milk, sorry - soup into the corners of his mouth and spraying him with water to get some level of hydration. You’re saying he lacked the strength to even eat. You’re saying he had shallow breathing, you’re saying he was fatigued. He had pneumonia.” Like Peter, all of his symptoms are Covid. And it stopped me in my tracks and then I was like, “So what happened? He had Covid?” And he said, “No, no. He just starts with, “I never should have let him go to the funeral to hug vaccinated people.” He said, because of all their shedding. And he said, “I should never have let my dad hug -” and he named the same cousin, “they’re all vaxxed idiots.” nancy updike I’m just going to listen.” And he goes, “I should never have hugged -” and he named a cousin. rachel mckibbensĪnd I was like, “I can’t even begin this argument. Vaccinated people were dangerous to be around if you were unvaccinated, like him and his dad. Her brother believed that Covid vaccines weren’t just dangerous for people who got the vaccine. And he said, “I never should have let dad go to the funeral with all those vaxxed people.” nancy updike I said, “Peter, what is happening? What happened?” And he explained that they had gone to a funeral. She called her brother, Peter Camacho Jr. She knew he’d been driving a lot looking for work. Four days after Jacob was finally released from the hospital and back home with Rachel and the family recovering - rachel mckibbensĪt about midnight, my brother sent me a text that said, “I’ve been too distraught to tell you, but Dad passed away today at 2:42 p.m.” Because nancy updikeĪ text telling her that her father had been dead for hours. ![]() for five days and the doctors told her to pray, she still didn’t reach out to her dad for support. She didn’t bother telling her father when she, her two youngest kids, and Jacob all got Covid in the fall of 2021. Her father was insisting that Rachel not vaccinate his grandkids, her children. A year or so later, conversations with her father were very different. Rachel and her partner at the time, Jacob, ran a bar and restaurant in Rochester, New York. He sent $1,000 to her bank account, an infusion. We’re family after all.” And I was like, OK, here’s an olive branch. Please, if there’s anything you need, let me know. nancy updikeĪnd it said, “Just want to be sure that my New York family is safe in all of this. Trying to find the email where he reached out. When Covid started Rachel, and her father were in a barely talking phase. She made sure her kids knew the good version of him. She loved him when she could and she never wrote him off. She left California, moved across the country. Rachel McKibbens and her dad, Pete Camacho stopped talking and resumed talking many times over the course of her life. Transcript Part 1: Black Box A grieving daughter discovers a detailed record of her family’s final days. She found a record of Peter’s last weeks and found out exactly what happened. What was her brother thinking while their father slowly died in front of him? What was he doing? Then Rachel made a discovery. Rachel was floored by how much she didn’t know about her father and brother’s last couple of months. Before she could see him, Peter died, too. But Peter checked out of the hospital against medical advice two days later while lying to Rachel that he was getting better. On the call, she talked Peter into going to the hospital. Peter didn’t get their father to a hospital, didn’t call 911, didn’t tell Rachel what was happening until it was too late. ![]() Peter and their father had lived together a long time and were both unvaccinated during the pandemic, they had come to fear vaccines. When she called Peter, he told her that their father had been dying at home for weeks. It read: “I’ve been too distraught to tell you, but Dad passed away today at 2:42 p.m.” She had no idea her father had even been sick. One evening last fall, Rachel McKibbens got a text from her younger brother, Peter. Original music by Sophie Allison of Soccer Mommy Listen and follow ‘We Were Three’ Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher | RSS Produced by Jenelle Pifer and Nancy Updike ![]()
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