“I was on the phone constantly,” Janese said. “I was just thinking about getting Janice home again, and that’s it.”
Janice told CNN that she spent about 115 days in the hospital and rehabilitation clinics and was recovering from Covid-19 after its start in March. She said she had been ventilated for 57 of those days and was in a coma.
Janese told CNN that she didn’t realize until she read the article that medical facility staff repeatedly told her that Janice was near death.
“I didn’t hear it, I didn’t have it, because I couldn’t get around the fact that she wouldn’t be there,” Janese said.
Janese thanked her faith and her doctor’s advice to remain optimistic about Janice.
She said she became good friends with one of the nurses who took care of her twin brother.
My only comment to her was, I said, ‘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 you to get her off that vent fetch, ” said Janese.
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 (myself included) followed her progress daily and included her in our prayers. She is a miracle and we are so proud of her strength in this struggle,” the statement said, as saying. read in the broadcast by Baldwin from CNN.
It continued, “Also let her know that I can’t wait to send her and her sister on a first-class trip, on me, wherever we fly in the world if she can travel. Merry Christmas!”
The couple were moved by the gesture, as they usually travel for birthday celebrations and were unable to due to Janice’s condition and the ongoing pandemic. Janice thanked Bastian and expressed her deep appreciation to family and strangers for helping and holding onto 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.
She added, “To have this interview with you right here now, for me it just makes me realize that every morning when I wake up, I have to say ‘Thank you God for another day’.”
Janice and Janese promised to let Baldwin know when and where they would be traveling, and Janese offered viewers a closing thought.
Please just wear your masks. You will never want to deal with this in your life. Just wear the masks. ‘