10/27/1969
Dear Aunt Edna:
I want to thank you for all your cards and notes this summer. You are always so sweet and thoughtful about writing and I’m so terrible about replaying. I certainly envied you your wonderful trip. I spent the summer recuperating of course. I suppose Mother told you I had a very large gastric ulcer that had perforated thru the stomach wall and the pancreas was infected also, because it was lying right against the place where the stomach was perforated. So the Dr. repaired all of that removed the ulcer, severed the Vegas nerve which controls the flow of acid, and also repaired a small hiatal hernia. I recuperated and recovered quite rapidly and felt really good until about a month after surgery and since then I’ve had a good deal of pain around the diaphragm area. I’ve been back to the Dr. several times and he doesn't think there’s anything to worry about - so I guess it just takes time. I can eat just about anything and am not nauseated or anything.
Virginia and Jim moved to Riverside the middle of July and we’ve been up there several times. I suppose you also know that Patty is getting a divorce. We all felt very sad about it but I really think it was the only thing she could do. She said if there had been any chance that things could have worked out and that the children would have been better off she would have stuck it out, but they were all being torn apart. It’s a long story, of course, but I really think John’s psychological make-up was the cause of the real trouble and even John says so. John sees them all very frequently and takes the children on many weekends and I think they all have much more peace of mind and stable relationships - altho I know its always tragic especially where children are concerned. Patty is working part-time as a tour guide at the Scripps Memorial Ranch. It is interesting and not too confining. Patty loves it.
That’s really something about Betty and Harold’s place being broken into again. Mac was sick all over again when he heard about Harold’s guns.
I expect you had a lot to do when you got home. Virginia (Jackson) took Denny over to Germany to spend a year with Shirley. They toured thru the Netherlands, Denmark, Norway and Switzerland while she was there. She and Harold are both planning to go next summer to pick Denny up. Thanks again for the nice cards and letters.
Love Miriam
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