Göran Martinson survived almost 13 years after he was diagnosed with a rare blood cancer. It was not cancer but COVID-19 that ultimately killed him at age 55.
“He had so many other things that almost got him,” said his wife, Ingela Martinson.
A year after her husband’s death, grief still wallops the 51-year-old Vancouver resident at unexpected moments, not to mention the expected ones, like birthdays, holidays and anniversaries.