Q & A: N.L. COVID-19 patient still recovering 8 months later, urges others to get the shot
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More than half a year after being hospitalized with COVID-19, Marion Traverse still has trouble climbing stairs, but she found the strength to go public with her harrowing story after hearing people say they don't plan to get vaccinated.
"I was listening to open line [on VOCM radio] and there was a lady on saying she wasn't going to get the vaccine and I said 'OK, I'm done and I'm going to tell my story of how sick I was and how I'm still recovering.' I have lung damage. I'm not back to my everyday life yet. I don't know if I'll ever get back to it," she said.
Traverse, 52, of Paradise, sat down with CBC's Mark Quinn to talk about her experience with COVID-19, before vaccines were available to people her age, and to urge others to do everything they can to avoid the disease now.
This interview has been edited and condensed for length and clarity.
Q: Do you know how you got COVID-19?
A: It was in the Mount Pearl cluster [in February], one of my girls was a coach at a volleyball tournament and she got COVID. I can remember when she got the call and I was standing in a doorway and she stared to cry and I said 'If I could take it from you I would.'
Q: How did she fare?
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