Shannon Mack-Costello
My name is Emir Costello and I am creating the page for my sister in law Shannon Mack-Costello who lost her life due to covid complications this past Sunday. The family is devastated by her sudden and unexpected passing. She’s left behind her husband Treneil Costello (my brother), her daughter Rahni, and her young sons Jeremiah (age 14) and Zion (age 9). She’s also left behind her sister Marikay, aunt Penay, and a number of Mack/Wanzo family members.
Below will be a message from her husband and my brother Treneil Costello:
To all my family, friends, and loved ones who want to help in this time of grief!!!!!!
My wife of 18 years 4 months 13 days and 3 hours closed her eyes for the last time on August 29 2019 at 3 am she died of heart complications due to covid. She was a wife , mother, aunt, sister, grandmother but most of all my best friend and the love of my life. I can’t believe that she’s gone and I’m struggling. I know God called her home and it will take time for me to deal with that. I want to thank you for all your prayers, love and support. A lot of people have been asking what they can do to help and if you wish to be a blessing to us, first thank you in advance.
Below is a timeline of events that led to the passing of Shannon Mack-Costello as chronicled by her husband Treneil Costello:
How Covid struck my house and took my wife Shannon Mack-Costello of 18 years!!!!!!!
On August 5,2021 I tested positive for covid and separated from my family but on august 7, 2021 they tested positive and we were all feeling sick but I was the worse and my body was in pain for several days on august 12, 2021 I and the boys got better and my wife got worse. She was having horrible aches and pains and she kept getting light headed and was just having trouble breathing so on saturday august 14, 2021 she could barely breathe and was in bad shape, she could barely sit up and told me she knew something was wrong,so I ended up taking her to emergency at memorial hospital they told her that her blood oxygen as so low that had she not come in she would have passed away at home, on Monday august 16, 2021 was our 18 year anniversary and her symptoms continued to get worse and on Sunday august 22, 2021 they put her in icu and put a full mask on her to help her breathe. We continued to face time for a couple of minutes each day. I tried to encourage her and I kept telling her she needed to fight this and come home to us because we needed her. Monday august 23,2021 at 5:30pm they called me and said we need to put her on the ventilator and I assumed that they had already spoken to her so I agreed. She called me in a panic because all these people were in her room and they were trying to put her on the ventilator and she wasn’t ready. I asked her what she wanted to do and she said I don’t want it yet so i stood strong with my wife and the doctor said to me if we wait and her heart stops we will still have to put her in the ventilator and there’s no guarantee that we will be able to bring her back but I still stood strong with my wife and I just stayed on the phone praying to God on her behalf, I prayer for a hours and 8 min and then she got off the phone with me, at 10 min to 11pm she called because she was scared and couldn’t catch her breathe and was ready to be intubated at that point I was scared and so I stayed on the phone and prayed as they put her to sleep and put her on the ventilator. On Wednesday August 25,2021 I called the hospital and they said they were able to bring the ventilator oxygen down from 100 percent to 75 percent and that her internal organs were working fine and that even though the situation was critical still she had come down some and things were looking up, I was feeling pretty good and I reached out to my church to give them the praise report. On Thursday august 26 2021 they said they were able to bring the ventilator air down from 75 percent to 60 and that they had started her on some medication to help with the recovery, every step of the way I was praying and thanking God and I called the church again to give the praise report. Then everything started to take a turn for the worse on Friday August 27, 2021 they said she had a rough night and that her blood pressure was up way high and that they had to give her something to bring it down and that they had to bring her oxygen back up to 100 and that her heart rate was so high that they thought it was going to stop. Friday at 5 pm I got the call from the doctor who said that they had done all they could do for my wife and that at this point they were forcing her to breathe and that it might damage her lungs and if something didn’t happen in the next day or two that this was the end of the road for my wife, but I was still trusting God to move on my behalf, I was set to preach at my church Sunday morning so I was up till 4 am praying and working on my sermon and I kept feeling pain in my chest but I knew it was my wife so I kept laying hands on my chest and praying for her heart, I didn’t go to bed till 4:30 in the morning,on Saturday the August 28, 2021 at 9 am I missed a call from her doc ,doctor Ye so I tried to call him back and I could not get him on the phone so I called Marikay my wife’s sister and she said she had called the nurse and gotten a update, they told her that my wife was in a paralyzed state and that no matter how they turned or tried to lay her that her heart rate kept going up and that they didn’t know what to do, Om my end I was still waiting for the doctor to call me back to let me know what he saw and what he thought, I couldn’t believe that it took such a drastic turn so quickly, my heart was hurting so bad I just wanted my wife back, but I realize that in this life we’re just passing through in this world and that if God decided to call his daughter home then his will was being done but for me it was a hard pill to swallow. At 10:30 am the doctor called and said that my wife was in bad shape and that we should prepare for the worse and that if her heart stopped, did I want him to resuscitate and I said yes and he told me that there was no guarantee that if he did that it would help or get her heart going again and he told me how sorry he was to have to give me this news and he told me how he knew my wife before this and that he had treated her before and had several conversations with her. I explained to him that we were all praying for her and that I believed God was going to either bring her home to have a testimony to share with the world to encourage them or he was going to call her home and that she would no longer be in pain trapped on all those pills suffering in silence. He was shocked at my faith and I explained to him that we were the youth leaders at our church and that we had great faith. In the midst of all this Rahni my daughter called to see how we were doing and asked if I had told the boys the update and she said she just wanted to be there for them and help in any way that she could, I told her to call Jeremiah and speak to him and Zion. I then went into Jeremiahs room and sat down with him and Zion and I explained to them how bad there mom was doing and I told them that sometimes God calls you home and I went on to say that if he called her home it didn’t mean that he didn’t love us, I told them we were just passing through and were not meant to stay here and that either he was going to heal her and give her back to us or he was going to take her home and put her at peace!!!! We then called her at 11:30 am and they allowed us to FaceTime her and we all began to tell her how much we loved her and wanted her to come home, I began to pray for her recalling as many scriptures as I could about the touch of the hem of his garment , the man with the sick child who walked to see Jesus to get the healing , the man at the gate called beautiful, and the man at the pool, so I stood on faith and the word of God believing that he could heal her and I begged her to fight and for her to join her faith with ours to be healed, jay spoke to her next telling her that he loved her and that he just wanted her to come home and he began to weep and cry, I let Zion speak with her and he told her how much he loved and missed her and how he wanted her to come home so he could just hug her, it was such a helpless moment for me. Once we were done I just told her that I loved her and I hung up, I went in my room and I could hear jay through the wall in the shower just crying and I began to cry more because my heart was hurting so much, at that point I realized I needed to pull myself together for my boys and we got dressed and left to do some work. At 6pm I called to get a update ,scared of what they might tell me this time and the nurse said that even though she was still in critical shape that they gave her another medication and that her breathing was a little better and that she was at 90 percent oxygen right now that they were just monitoring her right now so I kept praying and believing God!!!!!!!! I called again at 11 to check on her and was given the same update that everything looked ok so I went to sleep at 12 because I knew I had to be up early for church and At 2:30 am Sunday Morning my phone rang and scared me awake It was the the hospital and they said her heart had stopped and that they were working on her and that I needed to hurry up and get to the hospital but by the time I had got there she was already gone. August 29,2021 God called my wife home , they tried to resuscitate her to no avail and I could not get to the hospital before she passed at 3 am, she was no more so I had a total of 18 years 4 months 13 days and 3 hours with my wife!!!! To God be the glory!!!!