There was Insurance through your workplace sometimes if your company offered it, but if you weren’t lucky, you could visit a Doctor’s office for $20 or less. That “good old Doc” could put a leg or arm in a cast, put three or more stitches in a cut. Some even had X-ray machines.
And they could draw! blood. When I married my husband 64 years ago, you had to have a blood test. Don’t ask me why, Google it if you have a burning desire to know. Old Doc. Taylor tried so many times to get blood that I had bruises from my wrist to my elbow, and I finally said, “Doc, I really don’t want to get married this bad.” Then he got blood.
When our Son got his foot jammed between the front wheel of Dad’s bike wheel and the frame, we took him to the doctor’s office, no emergency room in sight. Doc cleaned the ankle, which was skinned, and said “Keep it clean, and it will form a scab. Bring him back if it becomes infected.” And it didn’t cost an arm and a leg (pun intended)!
The only time we are willing to go to the emergency room is for a life-threatening emergency, which I feel that is the normal, although I wonder if that is true.
As a kid, when we were playing outside, and we got thirsty, we drank water from the hose. We also cooked off under the sprinkler in the dog days of summer.
When we were older, we were allowed to go to Lake Sabastacook to go to the “Old swimming hole,” and our guardian was our faithful dog, Rex. There was no lifeguard! We knew we were supposed to stay in the shallow water, but of course we didn’t! our favorite place was over my head and if I gor into trouble, which I did because my brothers threw me in, yelling, “Sink or swim!”
Rex jumped in and swam to me, I held onto his tail, and he brought me to the rocky ledge the guys used as a diving board.
That’s all today. I wanted to mention the first book I wrote and self-published back in 2016, called “Murder on Lake Haverly. ” I’ve written over 20 books since.
It was a pseudo-history of the beginning of my real estate career. The main character, Maye West, might resemble me. Most of the other characters were taken from real life I met in that business, but the names were changed to protect the guilty!
Sparks start flying from her most difficult client and from bodies floating in her new buyers’ Shangri-la! to bodies showing up riddled with cross-bow bolts is just one thing after another, keeping Maye and her friend-with benefits, James, a Sheriff Deputy in hot water!
This and all my other books are available in eBook and Paperback are these sites in America and Europe: Apple Books, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, Everand, Smashwords, Tolino OverDrive, bibliotheca, Baker & Taylor, BorrowBox, Hoopla, Vivlio, Palace Marketplace, Odilo, Gardners, Amazon.
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