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!

Tuesday, April 19, 2022

February 8 - 11, 1982 Both Bills Enter the Hospital "walking corpse"

 

Monday, February 8, 1982

 

A most beautiful day, sunny and mild. A real type spring day. I did a big wash. Down to Betty’s a little while. Betty took Fern down to get her hair done, perm. Then she had her here for supper. Billie got a call from the hospital. He has got to go to the Mercy February 10 at 1 PM. Kim called after school. Joy called to. She brought her truck over for Bill to fix a screw on it. Dorothea called in the evening.

 

 

 

Tuesday, February 9, 1982

 

Well this is been another miserable day. Snow some, sleet and rain. I made a Jell-O and a fish chowder. Billie been busy all day getting ready to go to Portland to enter the Mercy Hospital tomorrow for tests. X-rays etc. I hope he will be all right. Bill resting today.

 

 

 

Wednesday, February 10, 1982 Billie to Mercy Hospital

 

A very nice day, quite mild temperatures, windy. Well I done up my work. Billie done chores etc. then he began to get ready to go to the hospital for what I don’t know, he is to have x-rays, tests etc. I hope they can do something for him. He is in bad shape. Also Bill looks very bad. He looks worse every day. Dorothea took him down. Bill done the chores and David done the milking.

 

 

 

Thursday, February 11, 1982 Bill to the hospital, NCM

 

A quite nice day. I done up my regular work. Got ready to go to town. Bill went to the doctors down to NCM hospital. He looked like a walking corpse. They put him into the hospital. Wouldn’t let him come home. Betty and Dorothea had to go down to get his car. Dorothea called Billie. He said the doctor thought he might come home tomorrow. He had had tests etc. today. In evening David came and done chores. Then Betty and Dorothea came and Joy. Also Zak watched TV. Later on Kim came to call. She looked like $1 million. She had her hair cut. She stayed at Gwen’s for supper and went to the hockey game.

 

 

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