About Grammy-Just a few memories

When only a few months old, while living in Georgetown,  I was sitting in a big box  when a large rattlesnake climbed in the box with me. My mother grabbed a shot gun and killed it.

When I was a small child I contracted pneumonia and almost died. I can remember sleeping in my mothers bed.

When I was in the 4th grade my appendix ruptured. I was walking bent over at the waist. I was in the hospital for 2 weeks with tubes in my stomach and in my nose draining the poisons out.

When I was about 8-9, my cousin and I were playing and I bent over as she came up with a can in her hand and it hit me in the forehead and made a big gash. I still have the scar.

When I was about 12, my cousin and I climbed the mountain behind our property with swim suits on and we both got sun burned really bad. We put lots of pretty rocks in our swim suits to bring home. We came down the mountain south of where we climbed up. I don't know how we kept from getting lost.

One time I stepped on a board that gave way on me and I went through it and cut a long gash on  my leg with a rusty nail.

One time I burned all the surface veins in my legs from exposure to the sun.

One time after coming home from camping, I stepped out of the van and my ankle gave out. I had a blessing and it told me that it was broken. On the way to the hospital I kept praying that it wouldn't be broken. When they ex-rayed it,  there were no broken bones. It had healed that quickly.