108-year-old decks out in ‘special’ party shoes
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NEW ROADS -- Germaine Weed’s broad smile faded only once at her birthday party Friday.
“Why didn’t she put my regular shoes on,” Weed asked her 65-year-old niece, wiggling her feet in a pair of shiny, silver shoes.
“I’ve been wearing those shoes a long time,” Weed muttered from her wheelchair.
Her niece, Karen LeVan, told her aunt that Friday was a special day that required special shoes.
“They put your dress-up shoes on today,” LeVan said.
But when you are 108 years old — Weed turned 108 Friday — you find a way to get the shoes you want.
Not long after her complaint, a nurse went back to Weed’s room at the Pointe Coupee Healthcare nursing home and retrieved Weed’s blue tennis shoe-like slippers — the ones with the giant zipper.
Born in 1900 and a longtime resident of uptown New Orleans, Weed was transferred during Hurricane Katrina from a nursing home in Jefferson Parish to the New Roads nursing home she now calls home.
“My hands are cold. They are cold all the time,” Weed said when asked what it feels like to be 108.
“I’m alone in this world. Isn’t that terrible,” Weed said. “I don’t do much of anything. I sit around all day. I’m too old to have friends.”
Her hearing is not what it used to be.
People have to yell to be heard.
Although past the century mark, she takes no medicine, her nurses said.
None.
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