“I was constantly calling on the phone,” Janese said. “I was just thinking about how to get Janice home, and that’s it.”
Janice told CNN that she spent about 115 days in the hospital and rehabilitation clinics recovering from Covid-19 after her appearance in March. She said she was ventilated and in a coma for 57 of those days.
Janese told CNN that she did not realize until she read the article that medical facility staff repeatedly told her that Janice was about to die.
“I didn’t feel it, I didn’t have it, because my mind couldn’t end up not going there,” Janese said.
Janese credited her faith and her GP’s advice to staying optimistic about Janice.
She said she became close friends with one of the nurses who cared for her twin.
“My only comment was that I told her,‘ Well, her heart is strong and until she gives up, I won’t give up, until the day she stops breathing, I’ll never tell her to take it off. of this output. ”“ Janese said.
At the end of the interview, the sisters received a message from Delta CEO Ed Bastian.
“Please let Janice know while she was in a coma, we (including myself) followed her progress daily and included her in our prayers. It is a miracle and we are very proud of her strength in this struggle,” she says. the statement, as read on CNN’s Baldwin antenna.
He continued, “Let her know too that I can’t wait to send her and her sister on a first-class trip, me, anywhere in the world where we want when she can travel. Merry Christmas!”
The couple was thrilled with the gesture, as it usually travels to celebrate birthdays and was unable to do so due to Janice’s condition and the ongoing pandemic. Janice thanked Bastian and expressed deep gratitude for the family and strangers for helping her and keeping her in their prayers.
“When you wake up from a coma after two months, you can’t move, you can’t walk, you can’t scratch your head,” Janice said.
He added, “Being here interviewing me now only makes me realize every morning when I get up and say ‘Thank God for another day.'”
Janice and Janese promised to let Baldwin know when and where they would travel, and Janese offered a final thought to the spectators.
“Please just put on the masks. You’ll never want to have to deal with that in your life. You just have to wear the masks.”