Tales of miracles are longingly sought for in this time of chaos and sad tragedies.
Surprisingly, unlike many other miracle stories, this one is not about fighting the coronavirus. This is probably the only story that the pandemic has helped families to reunited and bond over together.
Doris Crippen, 73, said she had come down with what she thought was the flu in May. Due to how weak it made her, she ended up falling and breaking her arm, sending her to the emergency room and eventually down memory lane.
73 years old and a COVID-19 survivor Doris Crippen thought she had the flu in May.point 190 | As the devastating effects of the virus is well known, she said that her failing metabolisms led her to lose control of her body, making her breaking her arm as a result.point 329 |
At the emergency room, she was diagnosed properly as having the pandemic, and was interred for 30 days in that hospital for recovery.point 111 | Her chances were promising, and she survived after about a month’s time.point 178 | After that, to tend for her broken arm, she went to another medical rehabilitation center, the Fremont Methodist Health’s Dunklau Gardens.point 304 |
It was there that the actual miracle happened.point 39 | 1
Bev Boro, 53, has been a medication aide at Dunklau Gardens in Fremont for 22 years and when she came across Crippen’s name on a patient board she immediately recognized it.point 188 | “I couldn’t believe it,” Boro said at a July 22 news conference.point 259 |
“I thought, ‘Oh my God, I think this is my sister.point 52 | '” The two women have the same father but different mothers, and they have not seem each other in 53 years, when Boro was a baby.point 162 | Crippen lived with her mother, but Boro and four of their 14 siblings were separated by the state and put up for adoption when she was 6 months old.point 282 | 1
On June 27, Boro decided to take a chance and confirm that Crippen was who she thought she was. Since, Crippen is hard of hearing, Boro went into her room with a white board and wrote their father’s name. Crippen confirmed that was her dad.
“I pointed at myself… and said, “That’s mine too!”… I have our dad’s eyes,” Boro said.point 119 | “I about fell out of my chair and I just burst into tears,” Crippen said.point 190 | “It was just a happy feeling to find my sister.point 234 |
It’s been 53 years since she was a baby and I held her.point 49 | ” Crippen had tried to find her siblings several times over the years, but failed.point 123 | “It’s amazing … really overwhelming, after so many years,” Crippen said.point 209 |
“I never thought I’d find her again.point 42 | ”point 49 | 1
Boro on the other hand had tracked down most of their siblings, and now she gets to reunite Crippen with the family members Crippen thought she had lost.point 294 |
They are now trying to plan a family reunion.point 37 |
“It was the Lord’s blessing that I got sent here,” to the rehab center, “because if I hadn’t been sent here, I wouldn’t have found her,” Crippen said.point 202 | 1
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