While I still hadn't created any real hand me downs with Sally Sue I had at least managed to lay the foundation for greater things to come, at least I thought so. Then I put her plate on a tray and carried it up to her room. I knocked on the door and when she didn't answer. I got worried and opened it anyway and went on in. There was my mother, still in the bed, with covers up under her chin.
Nobody is all pale like that.
Well I tell you. I sat that tray down and ran all the two blocks to Doc Johnson's house. Why I didn't use the phone, I'll never know. But I ran. Doc came back with me a mite slower.