A wife who missed her husband's death by minutes found his final phone notes telling her how to pay the mortgage and how much he loved her.
Katie Coelho walked into the intensive care unit seven minutes after her 32-year-old husband Jonathan was pronounced dead from coronavirus.
The 33-year-old mum-of-two regretted being unable to say goodbye, but then discovered Jonathan had penned an incredibly emotional farewell in an 170-word phone note.
Beneath instructions on how to pay the mortgage, Jonathan left messages for his wife and children - Braedyn, two, and Penelope, one.
Jonathan wrote it the day before he was placed on a ventilator at a hospital in Danbury, Connecticut, in the USA.
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The note includes reassurance that "if you meet someone, know that if they love you and the kids that I love that for you".
It added: "I love you guys with all my heart and you’ve given me the best life I could have ever asked for.
“I’m so lucky, it makes me so proud to be your husband and the father to Braedyn and Penny.”
The stay-at-home mum said: “I don’t think if I was in Jonathan’s position, I would have thought to write a note - but that’s just how Jonathan was as a person.
“Trying to understand how he was in that mental state is so hard, but it’s also not surprising because of how much he loved me and loved the kids.
“I turned on his phone to get some pictures and when his phone turned on, his call log was on because he had tried to call me.
“So I cleared that out and right behind it was his notes and at the top of it, it had some personal information - who to contact at his job, passwords and telling me that we had a safe that I didn’t know we had.
“He was the grown-up in the relationship.
“Then I started reading down and the first line said, ‘I love you guys with all my heart,’ and I just screamed.
“I kept reading and it clicked.”
Jonathan developed symptoms included a migraine and a loss of taste before he tested positive for covid-19 on Wednesday, March 25.
After developing respiratory problems on Thursday, March 26, he was admitted to hospital and placed on a ventilator on Tuesday, March 31.
One of the last conversations the married couple had was when Jonathan was first taken off the ventilator on Tuesday, April 7 - he told Katie that he might be discharged soon.
But on Wednesday April 22, doctors called Katie at 2.15am to say that she needed to come and say goodbye.
She arrived just minutes after he died.
Jonathan's ashes are now part of two grandfather clocks - one set to the time Braedyn was born, and the other to Penelope's birth time.
Katie and Jonathan met at Western Connecticut State University and would go on double dates with their partners at the time.
The pair eloped on Valentine’s Day in 2013 - and got married in sweatshirts in their living room.
They had a larger wedding with family and friends in December 2013.
Katie said: “I never felt so secure in who I was as a person until I became his wife, because he just never made me feel anything less than amazing.
“It sounds so surreal because it’s like a person like that doesn’t exist, but he really did.
“He was my partner - there was nothing else I wanted to do except share my time, my laughter, everything with him.
She added: “Jonathan was just steadfast and I knew he loved me."
