Oprah Winfrey will never forget first reading about Gary Fowler.
The television icon had been voraciously consuming news of COVID-19 and people who were losing jobs or dying from the deadly virus. But seeing Fowler's face in USA Today, alongside the story of his experience going to multiple hospitals in Detroit to get help for COVID-19, before giving up, stayed with Winfrey. What's haunted her most is that he sat in his favorite chair upon returning home and wrote, before dying, that he couldn't breathe. She said she realized that that was something she would do, too.
"I would want people to know at the last minute what I was feeling, what I was thinking, so I'd be probably journaling what those feelings were so that my family would have an idea of what exactly had happened," Winfrey said.
