THE GOOD OLD DAYS?

Since the purpose of my Blog was to let my grandkids know what life was like growing up, I know I need to post more than I have lately.

One of the big differences was in the small town where I lived between ages 4 & 11, Doctors made House calls. I remember many visits from the doctor when we lived in Freemont Ohio. I don't remember this happening in Cleveland where they probably had clinics.

As a small child, if it was a disease, we caught it, & would generously share it with each other as siblings do. We had among other things, Chicken Pox, which I got in Kindergarden & brought home to my younger sister, who had it much worse than myself on every part of her body. We had both kinds of Measles, what was called then as 3 day measles, & regular measles the hardkind which lasted longer & made you really sick. One of the worst ones was Whooping Cough because you cough so hard & have a problem catching your breath. My sister contacted Scarlet Fever,
& our house had a sign on the door which read "Quarentine" which ment no one could come in or out during the time the sign was there. Daddy had to go to his mom's house.

The doctor would come to the house carrying his little black satchel which contained a thermometer, & stethescope to listen to our chest, & I don't know what else was in there.

As a small child I had very bad nosebleeds & I can remember several visits by the doctor when this happened. He must have had an office downtown though, which was quite a distance from where we lived.
One day I was taken there to have my tonsils & adenoids(whatever they are) removed. This was a very frightening experience & I remember being angry with my mom about it.

The anasthetic they used was Ether. The Nurse put the cone shaped thing over my nose & the Ether was dripped over it from a bottle I think. It was horrable smelling stuff. I'm not sure how long I was there but I was groggy & my throat hurt afterwards. I think I went home in a Taxi which was driven by one of my older cousins who carried me out & then into the house when we got home.

There were good things about growing up during that long ago time, bu childhood diseases which we now have shots to prevent, & modern anesthetics are a big improvement as well as our modern well equiped hospitals make this a good time for my little grandkids to be growing up in.