MOBILE APP USERS: Watch Fox 32 News on the go by clicking here A 95-year-old veteran who lived through the Great Depression and World War II just beat the coronavirus.
Bill Kelly of Oregon, already facing underlying medical conditions, including kidney disease, a congenital heart condition and high blood pressure, is recovering at home these days, The Oregonian reports. “Grandpa Bill’s pretty hardcore,” his granddaughter, Rose Ayers-Etherington, 41, told the newspaper.
In a Facebook post earlier this month, Ayers-Etherington revealed her grandfather’s diagnosis but added he was “kicking it in the butt.” “In his words, ‘I survived the foxholes of Guam, I can get through this [coronavirus] bull—-,'” she wrote. “He has strong mental resolve.