Anguish of the times yields a trip to Washington state

Editor’s note: As the situation around coronavirus is changing daily, it is important to check Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines before any travel or in-person activity. Trasen retired in 2018 after a 16-year career as a JFS therapist. The petite 81-year-old should be traveling the world with her husband Ben. Instead they’re in self-quarantine in their Denver home. The Trasens are in quarantine because they might have been exposed to COVID-19 while they were in Kirkland, Wash., 12 miles east of Seattle, March 3 to March 14. They braved the journey to the Seattle area, then the epicenter of America’s coronavirus outbreak, to care for their daughter Janny, who underwent an eye procedure. “I knew Janny would be unable to drive herself or […]