Thursday, January 20, 2011
Doctors who are uncles
My mother had five sisters and one married a doctor. After our family doctor died my parents turned to their brother in law. When I needed shots or glasses he generally gave them to me. When I kept getting colds and always had a runny nose he peered at me and nodded. My dad at the same time was having some trouble but I don't remember his exact trouble but my uncle decided we both needed our tonsils out. We went to his hospital in Clay Center, Kansas and were both operated on and then shared a hospital room for a few days. After I came home and went back to school I managed to catch the measles. At that time in Topeka a nurse came out and looked at you and then put a big sign on the front door that you were quarantined. I do not remember my dad getting them so maybe I did not share them and my three older relatives had already had the measles. Later his brother who was not my relative and was a doctor in Topeka delivered my three oldest children. My first child was over nine pounds and hurt the doctor's back so he was in the hospital longer than I was.
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