![]() If not, sanatorium and collapse the lung etc. Then a further X-ray, and if I was coming on satisfactorily, continue similarly. We understood he was a specialist and were getting out our cheque book and expecting the worst-but it turned out he was the Tuberculosis Medical Officer for Surrey under the Government scheme and free! The main thing was that for 2-3 months I needed nothing but complete rest. On Monday the 10th Dr Henderson brought Dr Wallace. ![]() I had by then nerved myself for this possibility and wasn't too much upset but poor old Bill was completely unnerved-mainly because of my being separated from Mark-no thought for his own upheaval of having his home split up and all the anxiety, trouble and expense. Sanatorium for 6-9 months, and in a year or so I should be completely cured. Result on Thursday-tuberculosis in right lung. X-ray arranged for Monday-I was still fairly convinced it was nothing and a few days would see me through it. ![]() I little knew it would be the last cooking I should do for a year or so! Thought I had better have a cook up for Bill. Said I ought to go to bed and stay there-explained that I had no help, so he said ‘do as little as possible in the morning and go when Bill comes home at 1.30 pm’, and he would come again in the afternoon. I gave Mark his tea, put him to bed, did some ironing, had my supper when Dr Henderson arrived. I phoned the doctor, who said that he would call later in the evening. It was on Friday 3 March that I suddenly coughed up mouthfuls of blood. If one thing in life is more certain than another, it is that after the first genuine rush of emotion, other people are not interested in one's troubles. So for both reasons I shall set down what I really think. 1 April My idea is partly to keep a record of the happenings and emotions of this period in one's life, and partly to let off steam when I am fed up, rather than in letters or by word of mouth.
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