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The Girl in Building C : The True Story of a Teenage Tuberculosis Patient /
In October 1943, sixteen-year-old Marilyn Barnes was told that her recent bout of pneumonia was in fact tuberculosis. She entered Ah-gwah-ching State Sanatorium at Walker, Minnesota, for what she thought would be a short stay. In January, her tuberculosis spread, and she nearly died. Her recovery re...
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| Idioma: | Inglés |
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St. Paul, MN :
Minnesota Historical Society Press,
[2018]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Arrival, October 1943 : tell all my friends to write
- Adjustment : anxious as ever to get out of this place
- Holidays 1943 : didn't seem like Christmas without you folks
- A new year and a health crisis : today I have fluid drained, but it won't be bad
- Roommates : I'm getting so lonesome
- Settling in : now I have some hope
- Spring 1944 : haven't done much but sleep
- First summer at the San : Gee, whiz, the days go fast
- Romance : I have reasons to be happy
- Second year begins : you know I like to laugh & have fun
- Holidays 1944 : Gee, but I feel wonderful these days!
- Sorrows and shortages : an awful lot of living to do when I get home
- Summertime 1945 : Oh, how I wish I could be outside!
- Privileges and lessons : it seems just natural to be walking
- Changes : everything was in such a dither
- Surgery and recovery : please don't worry now
- Roommates, romance repeat : you never know what's going to happen in this place
- Progress and sadness : it's hard to be patient
- Looking toward home : it was the most perfect day.