Finished another baby blanket! It’s for a baby girl. By the time I finish 🤮, I’m sick of looking at them!
Read two good books of late! Vengeance is Mine is about the Mountain Meadows massacre. It’s really an interesting book documenting southern Utah leaders’ attempts to cover up their crime by silencing witnesses and spreading lies. Investigations by both governmental and church bodies were stymied by stonewalling and political wrangling. While nine men were eventually indicted, five were captured and only one, John D. Lee, was executed. I was grew up where many of those killed were from. This book hit home. The cause of the massacre was as old as time—greed!
Everything is TB educated me about a disease I thought I knew a lot about. John Green is a young adult writer. The book is well written and easy to read. TB is one of the oldest diseases know to mankind. It’s on the rise once again. Some of those the disease killed are: Thoreau, Chopin, Doc Holliday, Henry VII, Anne Brontë, John Keats, Eleanor Roosevelt, Vivien Leigh, Constantine, President James Monroe….list is so long! The anarondrk chair was invented so TB patients could sleep in the lounge chair and not have to be moved to a bed! I have friends and relatives who died of this wasting disease! Book was an eye opener!
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BP meds can cause a cough. A Book Club friend recommended that TB book but we're never sure how to discuss non-fiction. I didn't realize all those famous people died of TB! Love the baby blanket--such beautiful colors.
Your baby blanket and hat are really nice! Some baby will be really lucky! My husbands grandmother had TB she survived but lost her hearing. She lived in a TB Sanatarium for a number of years, Gene recalls seeing her through the glass.
That's a very pretty baby blanket. That sounds like an interesting book on tuberculosis.
Must check out that TB book. As a VA nurse, I had a couple of TB patients. We had complete air removal rooms and battery=operated air removal masks for our protection. Missouri had a law at the time that you could be "medically" jailed if you refused to comply with the medication routine to eliminate it. My Mom's Mom died in a TB sanitarium in the '30s when my Mom was 12 years old. For 2 years she visited her Mom through the glass, looking up at her from the sanitarium grounds. Sad. Linda in Kansas
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