Michele Cohen Marill

2 months ago | tucsonsentinel.com | Michele Cohen Marill

MindSite News This story was produced by MindSite News, an independent, nonprofit journalism site focused on mental health. COVID-19 hit the Navajo Nation in waves, like an invisible tsunami that swept people away from their loved ones.

2 months ago | seattletimes.com | Michele Cohen Marill

Libby Walker pushes up her sleeve and reveals the tattoo on her left forearm, a three-inch square with a tint of yellow. “I love you Oh SO Much,” it says in big, rounded handwriting. There’s a heart beneath the words and XOXO to the side. For the rest of her life, Walker will wear the last message her daughter, Heaven Leigh, left her on a Post-it note before she died of a fentanyl overdose on Aug. 1, 2020, at the age of 30.

2 months ago | publicsource.org | Michele Cohen Marill |Rich Lord

This story was produced by MindSite News, an independent, nonprofit journalism site focused on mental health. Get a roundup of mental health news in your in-box by signing up for the MindSite News Daily newsletter here. Libby Walker pushes up her sleeve and reveals the tattoo on her left forearm, a three-inch square with a tint of yellow. “I love you Oh SO Much,” it says in big, rounded handwriting. There’s a heart beneath the words and XOXO to the side.

2 months ago | seattletimes.com | Michele Cohen Marill

COVID-19 hit the Navajo Nation in waves, like an invisible tsunami that swept people away from their loved ones. Hospitals across the country overflowed with patients, but the virus had a particular ferocity when it hit remote Navajo communities in northern Arizona, New Mexico and Utah. In its wake, families were shattered: 2,000 Indigenous children in that region lost a parent or caregiver, according to one analysis.

2 months ago | imprintnews.org | Michele Cohen Marill

Libby Walker pushes up her sleeve and reveals the tattoo on her left forearm, a three-inch square with a tint of yellow. “I love you Oh SO Much,” it says in big, rounded handwriting. There’s a heart beneath the words and XOXO to the side. For the rest of her life, Walker will wear the last message her daughter, Heaven Leigh, left her on a Post-it note before she died of a fentanyl overdose on Aug. 1, 2020, at the age of 30.