Lucia DeClerck, the oldest resident of her 105-year-old New Jersey nursing home, was diagnosed with COVID a day after her second shot of the vaccine. This is an unfortunate moment, however The New York Times reports the happy news that the virus was defeated.
DeClerck was asked what her strategy was and she replied, “Prayer. Prayer. Prayer. One step at a time. There is no junk food. “Fair enough. However, he has a special routine: he eats golden raisins soaked in gin every day. Time did not specify your preferred gin brand.)
“Fill a jar,” he said. “Nine raisins a day after resting for nine days.” According to reports, the medical community has not accepted this treatment as a COVID treatment, nor does it have any other of its lifelong habits, such as saying the rosary every day, drinking aloe juice and brushing your teeth with baking soda. . His relatives said he had his first cavity when he was 99, so there could only be something related to baking soda. And while I’m generally not a raisin eater, gin raisins look strangely good to me.
“We would just think,‘ Grandma, what are you doing? You’re crazy, ”he told his 53-year-old granddaughter, Shawn Laws O’Neil Time. “It simply came to our notice then. He has won everything that has come his way. “
DeClerck has seen a lot during his lifetime. She lived through the Spanish flu, two world wars and three husbands. I’m not surprised it’s strong enough to go straight to another pandemic. After being diagnosed, the house left her isolated, where she was alone and scared. But he had few symptoms and, after two weeks, was back in his own room.
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His family has a new appropriate name for his grandmother Lucia: “The 105-year-old villain who kicked Covid.” And now it’s also my new culinary inspiration.