Scarlet Fever and Eyeglasses
I had previously mentioned that Mom had scarlet fever when
around 6 years old, and how she nearly died….because an awful lot of people who
had scarlet fever did die. Well, obviously she survived, but the fever
affected her eyes far more than anyone guessed.
She nearly got run over when in the road at some point while
still very small (grade school), because she didn’t see the car coming, and
apparently this provided the impetus for her parents to have her eyes examined.
Naturally she needed glasses, and the prescription
was pretty strong.
Shortly afterwards she went out into the backyard with her
mother, and she made some sort of comment about being able to see the flowers
or some such…and her mother cried, because she never realized how bad her
daughter’s eyesight was before the
eye exam.
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