My oldest was 18 months at the time, and I was three hundred miles away hunting back home. Spent eight days with my folks, and was pretty out of it. I remember sitting in a chair, trying to decide if I would make it to the bed or if I should just slide out and sleep on the floor. That took four hours to figure out.
My regular doctor said I had a mild case of it.
I think the worst thing I ever had was scarlet fever, I’m the only person I know who’s had it.
I was very young when I had it, not in school or anything. My mother must have had to go somewhere and my grandmother was watching me.
I remember this because I remember my mother coming in, wearing her racoon coat which I always loved (it stayed cold and I just loved that) and she had bought me some kind of little tea set, to cheer me up I suppose.
I remember her showing it to me and me thinking: my mom bought this for me to cheer me up, gosh I love that coat of hers.....
And then just turning away and feeling so unbelievably bad and not caring about anything on this earth including tea sets and fur coats.