Massachusetts Woman, 103, Beats Coronavirus, Celebrates With Bud Light
조회 수 2 추천 수 0 2020.07.18 15:18:37A 103-year-old woman has been filmed celebrating her successful battle with coronavirus by chugging down an ice cold beer.
Jennie Stejna was recorded enjoying her first sip from a bottle of Bud Light while propped up in bed at a nursing home in Massachusetts.
Helped by staff at the Life Care Center in Wilbraham, Stejna tips the bottle up for a few seconds, swallows, then comments: 'Cold.'
A laughing woman behind the camera asks her: 'How was it?' and Stejna replies before going straight back in for another swig: 'Mmm, that's cold.'
Jennie Stejna, 103, got coronavirus three weeks ago but recovered by May 13. She celebrated with an ice-cold bottle of Bud Light
The carer replies in the video, obtained by
Her love for the drink may stem from her passion for watching baseball.
Stejna's granddaughter revealed that she is a 'hardcore Boston sports fan'.
'She used to sit outside and listen to the Red Sox on the radio, Gunn told the Easton
Stejna was the first person at her nursing home to come down with coronavirus three weeks ago.
Stejna is a widow. Her husband Teddy died in 1992 at the age of 82.
Stejna's loved ones said she had a nurse by her sideevery day throughout illness.
When Shelley's husband asked if she was ready to go to heaven, Stejna replied: 'Hell, yes.'
However by May 13, Stejna had recovered from COVID-19.
'This feisty old Polish grandmother of ours officially beat the coronavirus,' Adam Gunn said.
'We're truly very thankful,' Shelley Gunn said about Stejna's recovery.
She was the first person in the home to overcome the disease.
There are currently 33 coronavirus cases at Life Care Center in Wilbraham.
In Massachusetts Wednesday there were more than 93,600 coronavirus cases and 6,473 deaths.
