Question About “My dear Ed,
1. How were Minnie’s treatments different in Charleston and Las Vegas?
2. Did Minnie ever have any chance of surviving?
3. Did going to Las Vegas show how desparate Minnie was to seek getting better?
4. Do you think there were any medications being used and unknown in New Mexico that might have helped Minnie?
5. With all the thousand of patients who came to Las Vegas for “the cure” do you think the doctors should have suspected an apprendicitis was due to a medicine they were prescribing to their TB patients?
6. Why do you think Minnie never knew she was 7 months pregnant?
7. Why did her Charleston doctor not know Minnie was pregnant before 7 months?
8. Do you believe doctors in 1910 were “shy” to examine a woman?
9. The locals of Las Vegas were nearly tuberculosis free. Why?
10. Why do you think it took 2 days of discomfort, before the doctor ordered Minnie to the hospital?
11. Do you think Minnie had a ruptured appendicitis?
12. A 100 years later, how are families different?
13. Do you know a sister like Hanna today?
14. What all did Ed have to lose if he fought for his son?
15. Do you believe Ed “saw” Minnie at the foot of his bed 50 years later?
16. What questions do you have?
Granddaughter Denise Conaghan Snakard
Winnetka, Illinois /snakard@comcast.net
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