APOPKA, Fla. – Turning 95 years old carries a little more weight for Thelma Patterson. Balloons filled the entryway to Daphne Johnson’s Apopka home, where her mother Patterson continues to recover from COVID-19-related complications.
Patterson told News 6 she tested positive for COVID-19 in late June. “I beat it, yes I beat it,” she said. “It wasn’t easy for me, sometimes I felt like I was going to leave but God said no.” Like many others, Johnson told News 6 she feared the worst when she first learned that her mother contracted the coronavirus.“I cried, I was angry,” she said. “You have that fear because you don’t always have a success story like this.” Patterson detailed how she spent quite some time in isolation after being admitted to.