Shirley:

Boy did you bring back memories when you wrote about Sister Kenny. See, I have this kind of memory that I remember pieces of dialogue from anything I saw years and years ago (especially Star Trek), People would bet money on me and call me up and they made bets because they knew I could recall every word of every Star Trek episode made. I'll never forget my boss getting a phone call and saying "melody can't do Star Trek trivia now, she's busy". Now I can't remember walking into the kitchen and putting away the milk but give me the name of a movie and if I saw that movie, it all comes back to me.

As soon as you wrote Sister Kenny, I remembered Rosalind Russel, standing over the kid in the crib and putting hot compresses on the kid's legs and everybody is telling her she's wrong.

I remember the words Infantile Paralysis from that movie. And I remember her instructing someone to put the heat in a certain part of the person's leg. They all thought she was nuts, but now we know she was the genius of her day.

But the best thing of all, was, when I saw this film, I had to have been a young woman in my 20's before they invented VCR's, tapes, Turner Classic Movies or American Movie Classics, (way before Cable came out), I believe I saw this movie on Million Dollar Movie on Channel 9. They would play the same movie all day long, (all day long, really) for 7 days straight.

Anybody here remember, Million Dollar Movie??? They played Mighty Joe Young with Terry Moore so many times, my mother would come in and turn the TV off. But I did indeed see Sister Kenny, over and over.

Now here comes the funny part. For years and years after I saw that movie, I though Rosalind Russel played a nun. Because I was raised Catholic and went to all Catholic Parochial Schools, I was taught by nuns. By Sisters of Saint Joseph, by the Franciscans, by the Sisters of Mercy.

So there's Rosalind Russell on the screen and everyone is calling her Sister. And then she's having some sort of romance with a guy who wants to marry her and I'm saying to myself "what the heck kind of nun can get married??" I will never forget this if I live to be 100 years old.

Only years later, when I either was discussing this movie with someone, or maybe I went on the Internet, I don't know, but when I discovered that they call nurses in Australia, "sister", well, I burst out laughing.

I cannot tell you how this all came together in my mind. I said 'oh, she wasn't a nun". Now this makes perfect sense"

I mean really, how can they expect Americans to understand that they call nurses Sister in Australia. Over here we call nurse's NURSE, if we want to get their attention, not Sister!!!

And what about if you are a nun in Australia?? What do they call Nuns in Australia?? I'd love to know this.

Alan just came home from work and we met up at Dunkin.

I just checked his foot (5 days now) and area of ulcer looks exactly the same. There is a bit of dried skin around the area of the ulcer, like it's forming a callous or something. I don't care, I just but bacitracin on it. Maybe it's a piece of hardened bacitracin?? He's had so many meds on this ulcer, but the problem was inside the quarter size (let's refer to it as a boo-boo) for want of a better word.

Where he used to have this gaping hole, and it would bleed, well, it looks exactly as it did when he came home from the podiatrist last Wednesday.
So all is good. And he didn't even need the toe flexors to go to sleep just now. When he wakes up, and sits inside, he'll do the toe flexor for 30 minutes and squeeze, squeeze, squeeze.

What a nifty little item!!!

So thanks for the Sister Kenny comparison.
I'm going to try and find that movie on cable. I haven't seen it in over 40 years.

Melody