Plague and I MacDonald Betty
Plague and I MacDonald Betty Tuberculosis. It meant entering a sanatorium for treatment, leaving her family, her children. A terrifying word, as terrifying then as cancer is now. Hardly the basis for…
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Plague and I MacDonald Betty
Tuberculosis. It meant entering a sanatorium for treatment, leaving her family, her children. A terrifying word, as terrifying then as cancer is now.
Hardly the basis for comedy, one would suppose. And what if she did not recover? And one would be wrong.
Betty MacDonald always had the ability to face up to adversity — and heaven knows she had enough in her life! — so after the initial shock had passed, she proceeded to laugh at her illness, the other patients, the nurses, the doctors, and — chiefly — herself. Humor was her greatest medicine, right up to the day she left the sanatorium, cured.