A survivor of COVID-19 is celebrating her discharge from St. Joseph’s Hospital with words of gratitude for the health-care workers who took care of her.
Helen Keene, 71, was in hospital for 41 excruciating days after being admitted with severe respiratory difficulties and a fever while living at Cardinal Retirement Residence — the site of one of Hamilton’s worst outbreaks.
Keene’s background includes being a caregiver herself, having worked at Heritage Green Nursing Home for 12 years, and caring for her husband as he was dying of pulmonary fibrosis. “It didn’t take very long for me to realize that I was in trouble,” said Keene of her first symptoms, during an interview on Global News Radio 900 CHML’s Bill Kelly Show. “It started with a