I don't know whether it was a nephew or a son; anyway, it was somebody
close to him. But I had pneumonia at the hotel; I think it was in '45.
And Dr. Byerly and "Miss Vic" took care of me. It wasn't exactly '45,
because Dr. Kavanagh … We didn't have a doctor, anyway, for some reason;
it was during that change, maybe, when Dr. Kavanagh had been in the
service, you know, and all. But he gave me a prescription, and Jack Owen
Moody went down to the drugstore and got it filled for me. I know, it
seems to me like I gave him three dollars or something, which would have
covered it, and he came back—he didn't have enough money. So I had this
bottle of medicine; it looked like chocolate. And somebody was there at
the hotel who was a nurse. And I said, "I wonder what this is." She
said, "It's quinadine." I said, "What in the world is he giving me
quinadine for?" But anyway, when he came that night I asked him what he
was giving me. He said, "That is cocodiazine." That's when the sulpha
drugs first came out; that's what he was giving me. But the reason he
knew about that was on account of whoever that was; he'd keep him posted
on that stuff.
But the ground was slick with ice, you know, and I just worried to death
about him falling, because he was getting age on him then.