DeClerck told
The Times that she was scared at first, upon hearing of her diagnosis. Although she showed few symptoms of the illness, she didn t like being isolated. She also missed her interaction with her caregivers at the Mystic Meadows Rehabilitation and Nursing facility in Little Egg Harbor, where she s the oldest resident and was active until she injured herself in a fall about four years ago.
But the devout Catholic declared, God will protect me, and within two weeks DeClerck had recovered and was back in her room at the home, Neiman said.
Naturally, when DeClerck s family two surviving sons, five grandchildren, 12 great-grandchildren and 11 great-great grandchildren found out she had contracted the coronavirus, they prepared themselves for the worst. It was a stark contrast to life in January 2020, when the family congregated at Mystic Meadows to celebrate DeClerck s 104th birthday, not long before the start of the pandemic.
Brooke Shields is recovering after breaking her femur and is learning to walk again, she revealed on Instagram. The shock announcement came after more than two weeks of silence on the social media platform. Her followers, fans and friends alike, expressed their concern and shared words of support. Courage. it s in your blood, wrote actress Glenn Close, while model Helena Christensen commented, I know this is a tough one. Sharon Stone wrote, I can bring food, reminding us that celebrities are really just the same as everybody else and need their friends when times are tough.
Shield, 55, didn t give any details about her accident. But the video clip she posted on Instagram shows her walking on crutches down a hospital corridor. She captioned the clip, Broke my femur. Beginning to mend. No matter what your challenge is, make a positive choice, for yourself, to move forward. In the video, she explained that she s only allowed to put about 20% of her full body weight on her brok
COVID-19 has made life tough for everybody who needed health care over the last year, but especially challenging for transplant patients. The pandemic has disrupted the referral and listing process, led to the postponement and cancellation of many transplant procedures, and made it more challenging for transplant patients to get the pre- and post-transplant care they require.
For one woman with chronic obstructive lung disease, finally getting her transplant wasn t the happy end to her transplant story. In a recent case study, published in the
American Journal of Transplantation, doctors say a Michigan woman became infected with COVID-19 after receiving a tainted double-lung transplant from a donor who turned out to carry SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, despite showing no symptoms and initially testing negative. The unnamed woman died last fall, two months after her transplant at University Hospital in Ann Arbor.
Widespread power outages in Texas are forcing people to take risky steps to heat their homes, leading to hundreds of carbon monoxide poisonings and at least two deaths. Learn more about CO poisoning and how to keep your family safe.
During a press conference on Thursday, Austin Water Director Greg Meszaros said the state capital s water supply lost 325 million gallons of water due to burst pipes. We know that there are tens of thousands of leaks, he said. As the fire department indicated they have responded to thousands upon thousands of burst pipes. That is an incredible amount of water. Nothing I ve ever seen before. What-You-Can-and-Can t-Do-During-A-Boil-Water-Advisory-GettyImages-152537775 Credit: Getty Images
Lights and heat came back on Friday morning, but some 187,000 customers remain without power and millions still have no water at all or are being told to boil their water to make it safe to drink, reported