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There was an absolutely heartbreaking account of a mother whose daughter was severely disabled by measles on BBC Radio 4 yesterday - hardly a "fun" event.
by arethuza 8y ago
There was an absolutely heartbreaking account of a mother whose daughter was severely disabled by measles on BBC Radio 4 yesterday - hardly a "fun" event.
- ranko 8y agoRoald Dahl's daughter Olivia caught measles when she was seven. His account of it always makes me cry: "one morning, when she was well on the road to recovery, I was sitting on her bed showing her how to fashion little animals out of coloured pipe-cleaners, and when it came to her turn to make one herself, I noticed that her fingers and her mind were not working together and she couldn't do anything. 'Are you feeling all right?' I asked her. 'I feel all sleepy,' she said. In an hour, she was unconscious. In twelve hours she was dead." https://www.roalddahl.com/roald-dahl/timeline/1960s/november-1962 https://www.roalddahl.com/roald-dahl/timeline/1960s/november...