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April 19, 1935 ~ December 3, 2020

ABBEVILLE — Private services will be held Tuesday, December 8, 2020 at Vincent Funeral Home - Abbeville honoring the life of Charles John Rosa, 85, who died Thursday, December 3, 2020 at Our Lady of Lourdes Regional Medical Center. He will be laid to rest at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Cemetery with Father Johnathan Janise officiating the services. Serving as pallbearers will be Mike Selcer, Baron Rosa, Everette Young, Troy Duhon and Eric Duhon.
Charles was a resident of Leroy, LA. He was a veteran of the United States Army who served our country during the Korean Conflict. He will be remembered as a loving husband, grandfather and a hardworking man.
He is survived by his loving wife of 60 years, Jerry Sonnier Rosa; daughter, Reneè Rosa Selcer and her husband, Mike; Chris Rosa and his wife, Missy; grandchildren, Leah Selcer, Andrew Selcer, Allison Rosa Young and her husband, Everette, and Baron Rosa; and sister, Melrose Rosa.
He was preceded in death by parents, Lertie and Mayo Ducote; birth parents, Alex Rosa and the former Elizabeth Keller; and brother, Clyde Rosa.
Condolences may be sent to the family at www.vincentfuneralhome.net.
All funeral arrangements are being conducted by Vincent Funeral Home of Abbeville, (337) 893-4661.

BATON ROUGE — The Louisiana Department of Health (LDH) today adopted the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) recently updated guidance that allows people who may have been exposed to COVID-19 to shorten their quarantine period from 14 days to 10 days, or as few as 7 days with a negative test.
Still, the shorter quarantine periods do come with a risk that a person may be infectious when he or she leaves quarantine, and should be carefully evaluated when weighing options. Because even a small post-quarantine transmission risk could result in substantial secondary clusters in settings where there is a high risk for transmission, LDH is currently recommending the full 14-day quarantine period for use among residents and staff of congregate living settings such as nursing homes and correctional facilities.
CDC continues to recommend a quarantine period of 14 days, but now provides two new options to shorten quarantine based on local circumstances and resources. The Louisiana Department of Health has reviewed the updated CDC guidance and underlying data and accepts the following options to shorten quarantine for close contacts of an individual infected with COVID-19:
Quarantine can end after 10 days, on day 11, if no symptoms have been reported during daily monitoring. For the 10-day quarantine, the risk that an individual who is leaving quarantine early could transmit to someone else if they became infected is about 1%, with an upper limit of 10%.
If communities have enough testing resources, quarantine can end after 7 days, on day 8, if the individual takes a COVID test (molecular/PCR or antigen), receives a negative result, and if no symptoms were reported during daily monitoring. The individual leaving quarantine should be tested within 48 hours before the time of planned quarantine discontinuation (e.g., in anticipation of testing delays). The individual needs to stay in quarantine until they receive their negative test result. Quarantine cannot be discontinued earlier than day 8. For the 7-day quarantine, the risk that an individual who is leaving quarantine early could transmit to someone else if they became infected is about 5%, with an upper limit of 12%.
Should an individual choose to shorten their quarantine the following guidance is critical:
Daily symptom monitoring should continue through quarantine day 14.
Individuals should adhere strictly through quarantine day 14 to all recommended non-pharmaceutical interventions including social distancing, avoiding crowded indoor spaces, hand washing, and especially wearing masks/face coverings when outside the home. Should any symptoms develop, they should immediately self-isolate and contact their healthcare provider to report this change in clinical status. Adhering to non-pharmaceutical interventions like masking and distancing are important always and for everyone but, due to the increased transmission risk, they are of vital importance to those wishing to shorten their quarantine.
Visitation to hospitals or to high-risk congregate facilities such as nursing homes or correctional facilities should not occur until after quarantine day 14.
Individuals may continue to quarantine for 14 days without testing per existing recommendations. The existing 14-day quarantine protocol is the “gold standard”; it guarantees maximum reduction of post-quarantine transmission risk and is the strategy with the greatest collective experience at present.
In addition, LDH recommends that any close contacts who develop symptoms within the 14 days after their last exposure to a person with COVID-19 infection should get tested as soon as possible.

About quarantine

Quarantine is used to separate someone who might have been exposed to COVID-19 and may develop illness away from other people. Quarantine helps prevent spread of disease that can occur before a person knows they have the virus.
The recommendation for a 14-day quarantine was based on estimates of the upper bounds of the COVID-19 incubation period. Quarantine’s importance grew after it was evident that persons are able to transmit COVID before symptoms develop, and that a substantial portion of infected people never develop symptomatic illness but can still transmit the virus. In this context, quarantine is a critical measure to control transmission.
Quarantine is intended to reduce the risk that infected persons might unknowingly transmit infection to others.

Here in Louisiana, people mostly live off of the land. From deer hunting, duck hunting, and fishing to rabbit gravies, fresh chicken eggs and the normal garden veggies, tables and bellies are always filled with the plentiful goods that come easy with hunting and farming. But one family in Vermilion is relying on certain parts of the animals that are sometimes disregarded after processing the meat.
Every year during deer hunting season, Leslie Vincent asks hunters to save organs including liver, kidneys and hearts in an effort to restock her freezer to make her daughter Olivia’s food for her feeding tube. Usually, the turnout is great.
The diet, based off of the Wahls Protocol Diet, was suggested by another mother from San Antonio who had a child that was very sick with the same disease Olivia has; a rare and progressive genetic terminal dystrophy, so rare that there are only 25 cases in the US and nearly 100 cases worldwide.
Neuroaxonal Dystrophy (INAD) was a diagnosis that scared Leslie. After much research, Leslie knew that what her daughter Olivia would have to go through would be nothing shy of a hard life. Refusing to give up, Leslie reached out to other families and found out that the special diet would be the best option for her daughter.
The diet focuses on all natural, organic, grass fed animals and wild caught fish. “I make my own bone broth for her with grass fed cattle bone marrow,” Leslie said, “The diet requires a lot of time and effort to prepare since it’s all pureed, but it’s worth every second.”
The need for the organs are part of the protein in the special diet and Olivia gets organs through a feeding tube 3 times a week. Wild caught Salmon, organic chicken, turkey or wild game are examples of the proteins she needs.
Born with no problems, Olivia’s troubles didn’t begin until the age of 18 months as she began to fall a lot. After bringing her to several doctors that included neurologists and geneticists. For two years, there were tests after tests with no answers. Olivia continued to regress. “They told me I may have to settle for cerebral palsy as a diagnosis, but after doing research, I knew that was not what Olivia had as she began to develop, Olivia was able to walk and talk,” Leslie said.
After begging her geneticist at Oschner to send Olivia elsewhere so they could do more extensive testing, he said they may never find out what Olivia’s diagnosis is, but the dedicated mother refused to give up. After a couple of years, Olivia had the diagnosis of INAD.
Leslie would not rest until she found every bit of information she could get her hands on to better Olivia’s chances; even knowing that she would lose her daughter at a very early age. “At four years old, Olivia could only walk with a walker and wearing a helmet because of the falls,” Leslie said, “At five years old, she stopped talking and could only crawl and to hear her call me mama is what I miss the most, I wish she could call me mama.”
There is no cure for the disease since it is so rare, but since her daughter could no longer sit without assistance, having seizures, and choking on foods and liquids, it was decided to put a feeding tube in to give her the proper nutrition. “This was when we started Olivia on the Wahls Protocol Diet.” Leslie said. Since starting the diet, Olivia’s family and nurses noticed slight progress with the diet. Olivia was more alert and her seizures went away.
Though the disease has progressed a lot since then, Olivia’s seizures began to reappear. She can’t move any of her limbs or control her head, however, she does still smile and has a silly personality. “We are currently dealing with the seizures again and the seizure medications are making her lethargic,” Leslie said, “I’m just so scared that she loses her beautiful smile and silly personality. We both enjoy snuggles and even though it’s becoming a little hard since Olivia is now 12 years old and nearly the size of me, I won’t stop picking her up and rocking her.”
Leslie’s persistence in finding anything that will work for her daughter has led her to many places. But surely, being from Louisiana has benefited the family in many ways. Every year, Leslie reaches out to those farmers and to the hunters for the ‘leftovers’ in order to stock her freezer for Olivia. “There was another little girl who lived in Lyons Point that passed away a year ago in October at the age of 17. The mother of the little girl followed the same diet and we all got close to the family. I can’t tell you how hard it was to attend the funeral and see that child in the casket,” Leslie said, “It hit so close to home and reminded me of what my future will be like in the next 4-5 years.”
Leslie says she will do anything to help her daughter. Being a teacher at Mount Carmel, Olivia gets 60 hours of nursing per week, other than those times, Leslie is taking care of her daughter around the clock with help from her 16 year old son Ethan and other family members. “We have so much support. Olivia has taught us so much about the world and she teaches me how to be her Mama. I thank God everyday that he has chosen me to be her Mama. To experience the love of a special needs child is indescribable. It’s heaven on
Earth and Olivia is like one of my limbs that I cannot live without. Everything I have to do for her is worth it.”
Everything is worth it. Leslie’s mother, Bonita Hopkins, helps her once a month to cook and prepare Olivia’s food, which only lasts 3-4 weeks. An example of one batch of food for Olivia includes: 3 cups of leafy green vegetables, 1 cup of sulfur vegetables, 1 cup of color vegetables, 1 cup of bone broth, 10 ounces of protein, 1/2 of an avocado, a clove of garlic, strawberries, blueberries, shiitake mushrooms, crimini mushrooms and water.
Knowing that Olivia will not be here forever, she is still thankful for the time she has with her. “I know that Olivia will become sicker and I will have to be up with her several times a night,” she said, “I know that she will get pneumonia and possible hospitalizations and I know that I’ll only be able to work 2-3 more years, but it’s okay, everything we are going through has taught me to slow down and enjoy life with my son, who will soon be a VC student and Olivia, who changed me in so many ways.”
“Olivia speaks from her eyes and could turn the coldest of hearts. This diet is just a small way we could help her thrive.” Being from Louisiana, with the heritage of living off of the land and the hearts of the giving, Leslie is happy that people have no problem helping. “Its humbling and it will never be forgotten.”

Hannah Boudreaux and Christopher Langlinais, Jr. were united in marriage on Saturday, December 5, 2020, at Southern Soirees in Abbeville, LA. Johnny Choate officiated the 6:30 p.m. ceremony.
Hannah is the daughter of Tara Meaux and Brady Meaux of Kaplan, Louisiana and Clougest John Boudreaux III of Abbeville. Her grandparents are Freddie Duhon, Carolyn Landry, Stephanie Boudreaux and Clougest John Boudreaux, Jr.
The bride is a graduate of Kaplan High School.
Christopher is a graduate of North Vermilion High School. He is the son of Julie Gates Barton and the late Ed Gates, and Christopher Langlinais, Sr. He is the grandson of Alwood Langlinais, Earline Langlinais and Judie Gates.
Christopher is currently employed by Slemco, and is co-owner of 12 Oaks Cattle Company and Acadian Livestock Cattle Company.
The bride wore an Ivory fitted open back dress with a fingertip length veil as her father Brady Meaux walked her down the aisle, carrying with her a bouquet of white roses.
Maid of Honor for the ceremony was Victoria Davidson. Matron of Honor was Molli Schexnaider. Bridesmaids included Lunden Schexnider, Mallory Meaux, Morgan Meaux, Kamryn Bridges and Addisyn Meaux.
The brides’ attendants wore a black fitted gown with a keyhole back; they will carry a bouquet of white roses.
Attending as flower girl was Addison Labbe, who is the daughter of Lacy Labbe and Leo Labbe. She wore an Ivory tooled dress with a bow in the back as she placed white pedals down the aisle.
Serving as Best Man was Brylan Suire. Groomsmen included Blake Schexnaider, Sage Schexnider, Kalen Hanks, Zach Istre and Tucker Schexnaider.
Ring bearer for the ceremony was Easton Langlinais, son of Hannah Boudreaux and Christopher Langlinais, Jr. Brandon Meaux attended as Usher for the ceremony.
Together with their attendants, the couple had a rehearsal dinner on December 3, 2020 at Southern Soirees, hosted by the grooms’ parents, Julie Gates Barton and Christopher Langlinais, Sr.
After the ceremony, a reception was held at Southern Soirees that was decorated with Eucalyptus greenery, white roses, gold accents and Pampas grass.