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"I would wake and hear the women screah medicine or maybe it didn’t take, but unlike ht sleep, I reh h bed with bars so I couldn’t get away One patient untied herself and crashed to the floor The doctor yelled at the nurses, bla her closer

"Finally they tooklike the rest of them" Her hands shook and she put down her cup of tea "They strapped ed them not to The harder they tried to control led Finally one of the nurses slapped me across the face

" ‘If you want us to help you, you better cooperate!’ she yelled ‘You’re worse than a child!’ That shut me up Once my wrists were tied to those boards on the delivery table, I felt like Jesus on the cross

"Finally the specialist caer to learn Before the gaswith the forceps and I kneas co her shoulders "When I came out of it, back in the maternity ward, I couldn’t believe the pain I was in My whole bottohed

" ‘What did you think it would feel like after pushing out an eight-pound girl?’ she asked in a superior way I hurt so badly, I couldn’t hold my baby

"Finally on the fourth day after the birth, an older nurse took time to do an exa I was so swollen down below that some of the stitches had pulled out and it was already too late to replace them

"A month later, I went to Dr Blum here in town and he said I must have had a reaction to the iodine in the soap they o wound It was a year before I could have relations--you know, the married kind

"Now my husband doesn’t understand why I want to have this one at hoo to the hospital I would rather die!"

What was I going to say? I promised that when she went into labor, I’d be there

February 15, 1930 Rainbow ring around the moon

Stanley Elton Lee, 7-pound, 3-ounce male, born to Clara and Curly Lee of Hickory Hollow, just outside of Liberty Our first colored family, with the exception of Cassie out at Hazel Patch Mr Lee was so kind, he even brought us blankets to keep us warot stuck in a drift, but Bitsy and I got out and pushed Mr Lee’s car, and we made it to the house just as Clara’s water broke

The baby came twenty minutes later Five-hour labor Fourth baby First son I saw their little girls peeking through the curtain they use for a bedroom door, but they were so cute, I didn’t care Very little bleeding Bitsy was helpful in cleaning the baby and getting everything ready Present, Mr Lee, Bitsy and I, and the girls Paid 300 and a gallon of hohum, which will be very handy on corn bread

Prudy

Late February, and snow is still on the ground It’s been a rough winter The snow at one point was up to our sills Now, in only a ine

Today, Bitsy and I, at her insistence, went around the outside of the house and knocked off the icicles, so I actually enjoyed it, cheered when each big one crashed