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Barbara Anne Milazzo from Edinburgh. Posted 29 Apr 2002.
My sister Fiona and I, in l963, were both in Chalmers Hospital in Edinburgh having our tonsils and adenoids removed. We were in the same ward with our beds next to each other. I remember my mother telling us that after the 'wee operation' we would be treated like princesses and given so much jelly and ice cream we wouldn't be able to eat it all! Oh yes, that part was true, but what she forgot to tell us was we wouldn't be able to eat it at all because our throats were so swollen! I was so ill that I couldn't even reach my sickpan so used my sisters instead which was nearer my head! I don't think she minded anyway, she was only five at the time! I also had scarlet fever when I was about six and remember being whipped away in the ambulance with all the neighbours standing around watching as they took me away. Rumour had it at the time that I caught it from playing 'down the drains'!

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