‘She never complained’: Toronto woman’s life cut short by van attack
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"I miss my best friend," Azeb Tesfamariam said through tears. "She should still be here with me."
TORONTO — Amaresh Tesfamariam‘s heart stopped beating several times over the past three and a half years.
There were numerous “code blues,” too many for her family to remember, with staff rushing to bring her back to life at the hospitals she stayed at ever since becoming one of 26 people run down in Toronto’s horrific van attack.
But Tesfamariam returned again and again to her bedridden life. Each time she had to relearn how to speak through a ventilator valve, a process made difficult by her paralysis from the neck down.
Yet she kept smiling, her family said, and even filled the room with a booming laugh when she could.
On Oct. 28, her heart beat for the final time in the intensive care unit at Michael Garron Hospital. She died from massive bleeding in the lungs due to being on a ventilator for years, her family said.
“Her life was beautiful, then the attack happened,” her sister Azeb Tesfamariam said in a phone interview from Eritrea, where the 65-year-old was buried last week.
“She never complained, she never cursed,” her brother Belay Tesfamariam said from Washington, D.C.
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