A Long Island doctor whose family died after falling from the Airstream they were traveling in loved their trailer so much that he nicknamed it and slept in it when it was parked in his driveway.
Tragic celebrity pediatrician Monica Woronitzka, 58, named her and her husband’s shiny silver RV “Nebula.” Because she “represents her adventures and her explorations,” said her devastated daughter Helena Woronica. She went to upstate New York to see the eclipse.
“She loved that trailer so much and put her soul into it,” Helena told The Post on Tuesday.
“She collected shells from the beach at her home and arranged them in a picture frame above her front door to spell out ‘Nebula,'” said Helena, an allergist at Stony Brook Medicine and a married mother of three. spoke about her mother. She said, “Even when it was raining, she would go in there just to sleep at home, and she put a lot of love into it.”
“She also loved to travel and explore, so my parents bought a trailer. They planned to take early retirement and travel to national parks and spend time exploring together,” Helena said. I talked about my 2 month old car.
“Mom loved her family more than anything, so the fact that my sister and I were able to come home and we could all go see the eclipse was one of the things she looked forward to the most. , it was time to spend time with everyone,” said the heartbroken daughter.
“She was so excited about this trip that she spent weeks in advance learning about space, checking out different eclipse glasses, and buying everyone’s favorite groceries.”
According to state police, Helena and her mother were in the family’s gray 2019 Chrysler Ram truck before the family stopped in Stewarts in the upstate for ice cream and her father. Robert, 59, was driving and towing the Airstream.
Police say the mother and daughter decided to ride in a trailer during the last 20 minutes of a family trip to an AirBnb in Cape Vincent.
Neighbors told the Post that the family planned to gather again for Helena’s wedding later this year and to witness Monday’s heavenly event.
According to state police, Helena was lying in the bed of the Airstream when her mother went to “secure” the door, but was still holding the steering wheel when the door suddenly opened and she was thrown onto the sidewalk. It is said that he was
Monica was pronounced dead at Samaritan Medical Center. According to her daughter, it was the same hospital where Helena was born when her family lived in Buffalo.
“This trip was their first time back in that town and she was looking forward to seeing the old apartment and the old town, but coincidentally she died in the same hospital where I was born. ” Helena said. .
Monica and Robert were both born in Poland in 1965 and immigrated to the United States in 1992, according to their daughter.
They lived in Sackets Harbor from 1996 to 1999 before moving to Long Island, she said.
“She was the most loving, generous, kind-hearted person I have ever known,” Helena said of her mother. “She was always thinking about how to reach out to someone, whether it was her family, a patient, a friend with a medical question, or a stranger on the street.
She spent her life helping and caring for people in some way, and I plan to spend the rest of my life trying to be like her. ”
Officials from Airstream, the trailer’s manufacturer, said in a statement this week that its products are “not designed to carry passengers while in motion.”
New York state law prohibits more than one person from riding in a moving trailer.
