Vickye, 52, has Lupus, so like many people at risk for severe COVID-19, the St. Petersburg resident spent most of last year at home. She avoided getting sick, but quarantining took a toll in ways she said she couldn’t have imagined.
“You were trapped with yourself, you couldn’t go anywhere, so you had to face yourself and face your demons and whoever you were trapped with their demons too,” she said.
Vickye was trapped with an abusive wife, which is why we’re not using her last name. Verbal assaults turned physical, until this past February, when Vickye said her now ex-wife shot her six times for threatening to leave.
Vickye has recovered physically for the most part and the case is working its way through the Pinellas County court system. But her emotional wounds are taking longer to heal.
