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Max Leavitt: It Was A Life Like This

 

Retirement

George and Fran to Paul 5/67

Conversation about Jennie's current health amidst planning for Max and Jennie's 50th Anniversary celebration.

GEORGE: Mom has something doing now, however with a neurologist she went to see who, I'm sure Pop told you about it in his letter, has ordered her into a traction rigging at night. I don't know how it has been working out because when I talked to Pop last week they had just gotten the gimmick and it was hooked up onto the bed, but they haven't started to use it yet.

I hope it does some good. I hope there's some relief, because you know it's just another step along the way and –you know– searching for relief. And then again who's to say that you know people shouldn't do that? You can't say yes, you can't say no, this is just the way it is.

They sounded okay when I spoke to them on the phone. Pop was a little bit, just a wee bit discouraged, because they had gotten that apparatus in the house and they didn't seem to know how to work it. But they were going to get someone in the next day to check them out on it. So I hope it's been working now.

IMAGE:  Jennie and George 10/67

 
Notes: gimmick: contraption. Traction: For a spinal disc problem? Traction was commonly prescribed for such in that time period, but this treatment has since fallen out of favor.

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