The plague and I
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The plague and I
University of Washington Press, 2016
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“Getting tuberculosis in the middle of your life is like starting downtown to do a lot of urgent errands and being hit by a bus. When you regain consciousness you remember nothing about the urgent errands. You can’t even remember where you were going.”
Thus begins Betty MacDonald’s memoir of her year in a sanatorium just outside Seattle battling the “White Plague.” MacDonald uses her offbeat humor to make the most of her time in the TB sanatorium—making all of us laugh in the process.
Table of Contents
1. “Oh Captain! My Captain!”
2. I Have a Little Shadow—Who Don’t?
3. “Good-bye, Good-bye to Everything!”
4. All New Patients Must First Be Boiled
5. Oh, Salvadora! Don’t Spit on the Floora
6. Anybody Can Have Tuberculosis
7. Heavy, Heavy Hangs on Our Hands
8. I’m Cold and So Is the Attitude of the Staff
9. Kimi
10. A Smile or a Scar
11. Deck the Halls with Old Crepe Paper! Tra, La, La, La, La, Lala, La, La!
12. Occupational Therapy
13. My Operation
14. Ambulant Hospital
15. Eight Hours Up
16. A Toecover and How It Breeds
17. Privileges
18. “Let Me Out! Let Me Out!”
19. “Whom’s with Who?”
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