Posted by Ian EN on May 20, 2004 at 12:47:43 from 148.88.0.9 user IanEN.
In Reply to: Re: Narrator in the first person posted by Peter Ceresole on May 20, 2004 at 11:08:36:
Think that TB was highly infectious
indeed, why my father spent 1934 - 1936 and 1937 - 1941 sleeping out under the stars on the banks of Windermere at the Ethel Hedley Children’s Orthopaedic Hospital in Calgarth Park ( up by Millerground ). He was strapped flat on his back to a bed, unable to move from it. He was suffering from TB of the spine, and to start with this was the only known treatment. He could see the lake and glide paper planes over the grass sloping down to it. His mother visited once a month ( bar one month when snow stopped the train getting beyond Kendal ) and brought him Arthur Ransome books ...............