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Showing posts with label diabetes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label diabetes. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 18, 2021

Arnold's Story: September 3, 1950

Hazel writes Arnold with family news — Bill and Mary Ann visiting Sansum Clinic in Santa Barbara for checkups (both have diabetes), Tom and Alice Madruga visiting with their three daughters, Pat quitting her job, and Leonard having two weeks off after his final exams.

Clinitest tablets are used to test for sugar (glucose) in one's urine. 










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first post in Arnold's Story  July 1943

first post in blog  Leonard's Story: May 29, 1943


Monday, May 10, 2021

Arnold's Story: July 18, 1950

Hazel mistakes the date here: Tuesday was July 18, 1950. For reasons to become clear in a couple of posts, the letter could not have been written on the 20th.





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previous post  July 17, 1950

first post in Arnold's Story  July 1943

first post in blog  Leonard's Story: May 29, 1943

Thursday, April 1, 2021

Arnold's Story: May 2, 1949

I wonder about the Andrews family. It might have been them that I heard about second hand from Arnold's time in Boston: some distant cousins were keen to get their son admitted to Harvard University (it might have been Harvard Medical School) and were looking for contacts to boost his chances of gaining admission. Arnold explained that as a student he had no sway with the faculty committee that oversees admission, but not believing him or understanding how it works, they would always press their case, to the point that Arnold would turn off the lights and pretend to not be at home. It might instead have been other distant relatives in Massachusetts than the Andrews.








next post  May 12, 1949

previous post  April 26, 1949

first post in Arnold's Story  July 1943

first post in blog  Leonard's Story: May 29, 1943



Tuesday, March 23, 2021

Friday, March 12, 2021

Arnold's Story: August 3, 1948

Hazel writes a birthday card and letter to her son Arnold on his 27th birthday. 

Daughter Dolly and her husband Lee have bought a used Terraplane car. 










next post  August 13, 1948

previous post  July 28, 1948

first post in Arnold's Story  July 1943

first post in blog  Leonard's Story: May 29, 1943



Wednesday, March 10, 2021

Arnold's Story: July 20, 1948 WEN

Here we learned that Arnold has won a scholarship for his studies at Harvard Medical School, and his father Bill Nevis offers additional money to help him out. 

Bill is being evaluated again at Sansum Clinic in Santa Barbara for his diabetes, which he typically fails to control well. (His daughter-in-law Newlin Ashmore Nevis, a registered nurse, said that in the 1950s and 1960s he "abused his body" by eating whatever and how much he wanted and then shot up with insulin to compensate. He did not exercise.) Rubye is Hazel's brother's wife.

A note from Bill's wife Hazel indicates she will assist in controlling Bill's diet.




next post  July 22, 1948

previous post  Leonard's Story: July 20, 1948

first post in Arnold's Story  July 1943

first post in blog  Leonard's Story: May 29, 1943