At the age of 107, the Minnesota woman recently beat Covid-19 after being diagnosed this fall, according to officials at the Ecumen Detroit Lakes community home, where she has lived since 2015.
“My friends got sick and were in bed, and I went to bed and my dad said to me,‘ You can’t find another place to run, ’” he said.
Throughout her life, Dybing suffered other losses, including the deaths of several siblings in childhood and her husband at age 80. He is also a cancer survivor as he overcame uterine cancer at the age of 95, KARE reported.
It has now survived two viral pandemics. The only symptoms of Covid-19 that Dybing says he had were fatigue.
“Nothing in my lungs. They said I didn’t have a fever. I just slept the whole time,” Tillie’s daughter Susan Berke told KARE.
Dybing recently returned to his apartment at the facility after spending a few weeks out of the general population, Ecumen officials told CNN. They added that they are happy that he has recovered and thanked his family for trusting them with their care.