Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-02-06

GUS sensation I've had in ages.
I don't have to go to work until
noon. going then straight through
to 7 o'clock. So when I heard the
others getting up at about a quar-
ter Of s I rolled over and went
back to sleep until $50. Then
went down to the nurses snack
room. There was q big pot of coffee
on the electric grill and I made
. pile Of buttered toast and mar
malade and lolled around In. my
bathrobe for a long time. Then
I came up, put clean sheets on my
bed, took q shower and dressed
and rushed to the p. o. to get a
letter before it closed at IL. The
only catch was there wasn't any
letter."
Yesterday We got a flight con-
voy straight from Paris, except that
the plane had been forced down
In some tiny place in Maine in the
night. The weather was about 80
below and everybody in town turned
out and got the wounded into houses
and fed and made comfortable
1t must have been an exciting event
for the little village"
Nearly Dead on His Feet.
about 1 o'clock we got a call
from dispensary to say they had q
casual there and would we send a
ward boy down to show him the
way. The ward boy returned with
\ cavalryman, booted and spurred
and damn near dead on his feet.
I had q fearful time getting his
boots OF because he was practically
unconscious. All we knew about
him was that an Army doctor had
wired for an ambulance and he had
been brought in. Some fathead
hadn't thought a wheel chair or q
litter was necessary and so the poor
soldier had walked all the way to
this ward.
We'll, he was one of the sickest
guys have ever seen. They brought
a portable X-ray downstairs and
started blood counts, etc. And then
the o. D. came, but unfortunately
he's neurologist and hasn't prac-
ticed medicine for years. He tried
to get hold of some one on the med
ical staff, but none could be found.
He started penicillin and glucose
and saline injections. I sat with
the soldier all the time because he'd
lose his breath and thresh around
like mad every now and then.
Not Expected to Live.
1T was finally determined he had
very severe pneumonia but the O. D.
didn't think he needed a special
nurse. The nurse and I knew he
did and so I stayed on until IL
o'clock. Then the night supervisor
took matters in hand and got q
special nurse for the rest of the
night.
When I went OF nobody thought
he'd get through the night-tem-
perature 1o4, bloody sputum, etc.
had got his mothers address from
him between spasms and they
wired her.
Later: Well. apparently about
midnight they reached a medical
man and put the soldier in an oxy-
gen tent so that this morning his
temperature was down and he look
ed a little better. His wife and
mother have arrived.
"Just now he asked me If I had
any children so I launched into q
vivid account of my two little girls
and then he said proudly, I've
daughter, too And I said. How
old?' and he said, -Four weeks
Nov he's dropped off to sleep.
When he wakes up and strangles
bit I turn on more oxygen to relieve
him. Goodness, I hope nothing hap
pens to carry him of; he's such q
nice boy.
Credited With Saving Life.
"A little later: They took him out
OF the oxygen tent for a while and
he ate a good meal and 1 bathed
him and changed his bed and got
him all comfortable except that he
has to sit up In bed to breathe"
This may give you some idea of
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