When Doris Crippen broke her arm in May, she said she feared for her life. “I stayed there for 24 hours before I met, and I think I’m going to die,” Crippen told CBS correspondent Chip Reid.
“COVID is something I’ll never have again,” he says.
However, the sour pill has become less difficult to swallow when Crippen met his drug assistant, Bev Boro, at an outdoor rehabilitation center in Omaha, Nebraska.
“I couldn’t have she really been there, ” said Boro. “I was like, ‘Oh my God. I think she’s my sister.'”
“My brain is accelerating. I’m like, “Why are you asking me this question? I don’t know her, ” said Crippen. But it seemed familiar to me.”
Familiar, it turns out that years ago.
His father a truck driver.
“He would have my mother go out on the road with him and left us with a 10- and 11-year-old to take care of … 6 months to 5 years old, so the neighbor called the state,” Boro said.
Boro, who was just under 6 months old at the time, was sent to a foster home. Crippen, who was 20 and lived somewhere else, tried to locate her.
“I’ve been with my sisters for over 53 years,” Crippen said. “I knew they were there, but I may never find them.”
Now they locate a new circle of relatives through another.
“So far, I’m connected to my sister, ” said Crippen.
Boro said they see each other a lot now. “It’s hard for those citizens and patients not to have visitors,” he says. “I see her three or four times a day.”
Crippen said he was looking forward to getting out of the rehab facility.
“So I can spend time with her, meet her husband and children,” she says.
“Oh, it’s going to be amazing, ” said Boro.
“I suppose it’s God’s plan for this to happen because, if I didn’t have COVID, I would never have discovered my sister,” Crippen said.