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  • Maria Torres is 106 years old.

  • Knitting and solving crossword puzzles is how the mother of 12 passes the time in her small apartment in Los Angeles, California For the last couple of weeks, Torres, a native from Guerrero, Mexico, who migrated to the US in 1976 had been asking her grandson, Frankie Mercado, for the cove in 19 vaccine E.

  • I heard that someone who gets vaccinated doesn't die soon, and that's what I don't want yet.

  • I want to live some more days, whatever God grants me.

  • But my will is that to last more days.

  • But Mercado couldn't imagine taking his grandmother, who uses a walker out of the apartment and driving her to a vaccination clinic.

  • Just getting Torres from the kitchen to her bedroom is an ordeal.

  • Enter CJ Bartholomew, a nurse manager for care ambulance, and when I heard way, have this lady was 106 years old.

  • She survived the last pandemic, and she's really not able to leave her house.

  • I figured coming in for a few hours on the weekend is the least I could do it.

  • On February 13th, Bartholomew paid tours a visit to administer the vaccine.

  • Nurse Bartholomew stayed for 30 minutes after he gave her the vaccine to observe any reaction in Torres, who is healthy but has Type two diabetes.

  • He emphasized that the house call was a special occasion, and as much as they would like to help more people like Torres, there re sources are limited.

  • Her grandson was thankful, saying he can't imagine life without the woman who has raised him since he was five.

  • I don't want her Thio be separated for me and she's lived this long life, and the last thing I would want for her is to die alone and I can't visit her.

  • This is the second pandemic Torres has lived through.

  • She was a toddler during the 1918 Spanish flu, with one shot down and another to go.

  • Torres says she hopes family and friends will soon start visiting again.

Maria Torres is 106 years old.

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