MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO-TV) — A Minnesota woman has a title very few people in the world share: two-time major pandemic survivor. The 107-year-old newly-vaccinated warrior is Tillie Dybing. She lives at Ecumen in Detroit Lakes. Dybing is full of history. Her life started a century ago on a North Dakota farm. “I worked hard. I was a farm girl, I used to haul grain with a team of horses from the thrashing [machine] to the grain elevator,” Dybing said. That tough young lady would endure what few ever could. Starting with the 1918 flu pandemic, she was 5, and her hardworking parents both caught the virus. “My folks were in bed, I was running up and down the middle of the bed, you know, and keeping my folks awake, and my dad said, ‘Can’t you run some other place?’” Tillie said. “That was quite a flu, quite a session there. Though I survived that, and survived cancer.” Dybing also survived the loss of her beloved husband, and most recently, at 107 years old, she survived COVID-19. “I don’t know, I didn’t feel any different,” she said. The stoic great-grandmother says the most painful part of COVID was staying inside her room. “I opened the door… Read full this story
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