The blog posts below are taken from my grandmother's diaries. Althea Green Smith Crook was lovingly referred to as Nanny to her immediate family ~ thus her diaries are called Nanny's Diaries.

Nanny wrote in her diaries when she remembered to - mostly in the evening. There will be some years in which she didn't keep diaries and there will also be some days/weeks in her yearly diaries in which she skipped or forgot to write in them. For the most part, these are her words - written as she wrote them. There will be typos, forgotten punctuation, and other grammatical errors - but I am rewriting these as my Nanny originally wrote them.

As with all old handwriting, there are some entries that I can't quite make out - and these entries will be followed with a (?) to signify that this may or may not be correct or I can't figure out what she is trying to write.

Thank you Nanny for leaving us 50 years worth of memories! We miss you!

Friday, June 5, 2015

March 7 - 10, 1955 Mama and Billie in Portland Hospitals



Monday, March 7, 1955

Nice day, awful cold. Washed. Nellie went today and Betty had another sheep here when she got home. Bill bought it at Howard’s.



Tuesday, March 8, 1955

Very nice day. Dorothy Prescott took Mama down to Dr. Crowley’s office. He said he wanted her to go in and see Dr. (?) Godutis. Her eyes were bad.



Wednesday, March 9, 1955

Stormy day. Dorothy Prescott and I took Mama down to Dr. Godutis. He said he thought it best she have an eye operation. Dot and I took her up to the Eyecare Infirmary and got her in. Hated to have to leave her, but she was very tired from going around from place to place.



Thursday, March 10, 1955

Billie sick all day, in p.m. went down to see Dr. Skillin and said he had appendicitis and wanted him to get to the hospital as soon as he could. Raymond took him to Dr. then he came home and Raymond and I took him to the Maine General Hospital. He was operated on in the nite a press case and enlarged.



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