Plainview with parsonage next to Immanuel with pastor sitting on the steps.
I was thinking that during the depression of the "30,s and World War II we didn't have lawn chairs. Now we have six or so thanks to Nicholas and Marty. Is this a measure of the standard of living? Sittin' on the steps was kinda good too.A winter or two after the picture when I was four I contracted double pneumonia. An oxygen tent was brought to the room and over the bed where I was born. I wouldn't stay under unless mother would stay under with me. Dr. Slocumb longtime Plainview physician thought nothing could be done. Doctors from nearby Mayo at Rochester came and said open wide the doors in the middle of winter for more 02. On a Sunday morning as my father was leaving for church he told me ,sometime later ,I was turning blue and he didn't think he would see me alive again. At any rate I am still breathing 75 years later. As an aftermath Doc Slocumb told my mother that if he ever gets anything like that again it will be the end so she would say "put on a stocking cap" or "don't get your feet wet" etc. For me if a friend would get me down wrestling I would think I was suffocating and say "let me up". Guess death among the young was more common then especially after the flu epedemic. "The old must go and the young may go."
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I was just going to post the picture, but I see you have already!
The last couple of years have often made me think that I have a lot more than sometimes I might feel like I do. No lawn chairs, though (but in all honesty, I could get some if I really wanted to).
I was just thinking--I suppose you weren't worried about health insurance in those days?
At any rate, I, for one, am sure glad you made it through!
I was wondering if the doctors at Mayo still practice medicine as in the old days. Maybe Sei knows. They used to charge you on the basis of your income and/or resources, I guess.
That's crazy talk! How's anybody supposed to get rich that way?
Check with the Mayo brothers.
At last! Low 80's and drier! Maybe tomorrow, too. Tuesday and Wednesday, back to 90 with a chance of rain on Wednesday...so I'm not sure what to think of that yet...at least they didn't say "hot and humid" yet.
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