It Figures
22/8/17 07:49![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
madrobinsBecca has scarlet fever.
Who does that? The full power of modern medicine has gone to work, and though she is crimson, yet she has regained her sense of humor (we have discovered that a 103.4° fever replaces her sense of humor with an intractable sense of doom) and is eating Saltines. So there's that.
Who does that? The full power of modern medicine has gone to work, and though she is crimson, yet she has regained her sense of humor (we have discovered that a 103.4° fever replaces her sense of humor with an intractable sense of doom) and is eating Saltines. So there's that.
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22/8/17 19:51 (UTC)When my brother was young--elementary school-age, he got scarlet fever. We had a doctor who made house calls. I was in high school, and not home, so I had to be told this story: When the doctor calmly announced the diagnosis to my mother, she calmly fainted dead away. Still thought of it as a death sentence. . .There were antiobiotics already in the early 60s, and my brother made a quick and complete recovery.