Wed 11/20/1969
Dear Aunt Edna,
Your nice long letter was here when we got home. Thank you for the picture - you got more people gathered together than Al did. It must have been a deceiving day for lighting - you both got them a little overexposed, but it’s nice to have them anyway.
This last month must have been the wrong zodiac or something for our families. All the robberies and illness etc. Mac & Miriam’s family has had a terrible month. Mac has been having blackouts and Miriam has had a lot of pain also her eye is very inflamed and sore. She is going to go to an eye specialist this week. Then several weeks ago Christi (Vir Lee’s) broke a little bone in her foot. Then last week Vir. Lee was fixing lasagna and took a bite of cheese. It went into her windpipe and she had trouble for a few days. She finally went to the Dr. and they put her in the hospital. The cheese had gone into her lungs. She stayed three of four days and they couldn’t get it out. She has an infection already so they are terribly concerned. They let her go home for the weekend and four doctors are consulting. I haven’t heard if they’ve decided what to do. Anyway she got so upset she went all to pieces. Then when they got home Vicki was in bed. She had just gotten over a siege of pneumonia and Vir was worried about her anyway and she had been crying and had been in bed all the time Vir had been in the hospital. She was afraid that she had cancer of the breast. Her breast was swollen and very sore - so they took her to the doctor and Vicki had an abscess which has to be removed. Did you ever hear of so much happening to one family all at once? Miriam is so worried and with all the turmoil at school over teacher’s strikes, she doesn’t dare take off anytime. Jim’s mother has gone to Riverside to be with them.
Mac has had some tests on his lunch and the doctor told him if he didn’t quit smoking he could count his years to live on one hand. Of course they have warned him before - but he just can’t quit. I sure wish he and Miriam would start feeling better.
We had a lot of fun on our trip. You couldn’t believe the number of trailers and campers over in Death Valley. The estimate was around 10,000. Row upon row in several spaces. One at Furnace Creek and one at Stovepipe Wells. There was a lot of activity. Pancake breakfasts, hikes, nature talks, dancing, song fests, a ‘49er trail ride (50 people for 125 miles) etc. There was a burro race that was fun too. The weather was just perfect. A little rain the first night but that made us sleep.
The mailman is due so I’d better get this out. I’ll write again when I have good news.
Love Dorothy
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