A glance in the mirror, after having passed into the expert hands of Nicole, the hairdresser of the center Roger Duquesne. Because she is flirtatious, Rose Gaudin. But what characterizes her above all is her strong temperament and her fighting spirit. At 108 years old, our elegant Aixoise even put down the coronavirus!
Tested positive on April 20, the resident of the nursing home had been hospitalized on the third floor of the establishment, within the Covid unit fitted out during the health crisis. Rose spent thirty-five days there. “When the doctor warned me that she was sick, I was a little worried of course, with everything we saw on the news, says her 87-year-old daughter. It shocked me to know that she had caught the virus because I knew there were lots of dead. And considering his age …“.
But deep inside her, Liliane was convinced that her mom would get out of it. “She is strong, I was sure she would resist!“Because listening to those around her, Rose has always had an iron health. Her secret? Her father’s famous vegetable soup, it seems, which she still talks about today.
“She would say to you: ‘that’s what saved me’! Mom has never had an operation, never had the flu, she has no diabetes or cholesterol. The heart is fine. She just became deaf“explains her daughter, quickly relieved by the absence of complications in her mother’s state of health.
“The symptoms were not very severe. She had a fever, a lot of fatigue, but no breathing problems, says Liliane. The center teams gave me news. I knew that mom did not eat much, only at breakfast. It doesn’t surprise me, anyway she always did what she wanted. It can be hard. But you know, she didn’t always have a very happy life, she lost her mother when she was nine years old.“
She is a somewhat Rose “emaciated“, to the “Tired“, which Liliane found a few days ago, when, accompanied by her son, she was authorized to visit him.
The last control tests were negative and the centenary was able to return to her room, on the first floor of the retirement home. “It had been three months since I last saw her. I thought she would be more weakened “, says Liliane, after the reunion. “But they had done it well“.
With her (very large) family – she is very sad! – like teams from the Roger Duquesne center where she has lived since 2003, Rose commands admiration. “She is so strong!”, smiles Camille, the host of the Ehpad. “Until last year, she was walking alone to the garden. We told her she was going too fast, but she replied: ‘I’m not going to calm down at my age!’ She always said to me, ‘I’m a rock!’ “, says Nicole, the hairdresser that Rose regularly asked for.
And if no niche was available, “she pretended not to hear and she stayed to take care of her“A hell of a temper!
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