“That’s when I told him that I had HIV and my husband died of it, which is a lie.”
And those words were just the ticket to scare her intruder back to where we came from. The man tied her ankles together with a piece of wire he had, and fled her house.
Helen freed herself by chewing through the duct tape, then running to a neighbor for help.
Though her quick-thinking saved her from becoming a victim, Helen knows that her words had little to do with it:
“It was all about me and my God and he helped me out.”
This brave grandma hopes that her story is a warning for all women her age, and a reminder to “never stop fighting.”