[cripplecreek]

When I was born in 64 the total cost was only a couple hundred dollars.

[mongo141]

When I was about 2 or 3 I had my tonsils removed on the kitchen table by a doctor who came out to the house we were living in. This was in about 1945 or 6 and such things were common in those days according to my mother. She had to supply some boiled towels and wash cloths and help the doctor administer chloroform which was sprinkled on a wire mesh screen covered by a wash cloth that was placed over my face. I can remember that green wash cloth to this day and that I got all the ice cream I wanted after the “fun” was over. My mother presented me with a hand written bill signed by a Doctor (who's name I cannot remember) a few years before she died. I think it came to about $12.00, big money for our family in those days I was told.