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1943/12/29
CLH calls Christmas 1943 the "luckiest ever." Says he has
"been taking an enforced rest but it hasn't been too rough on me. I've met the prettiest nures that I ever knew were still free."
Reading a book called "Richard Carwell."
"been taking an enforced rest but it hasn't been too rough on me. I've met the prettiest nures that I ever knew were still free."
Reading a book called "Richard Carwell."
Tags: 12/29/43, Hospitalization and recovery, London, UK
1943/12/31
"On 22 December your son, Captain Charles L. Hobbs, was removed from the seriously ill list."
1944/01/02
Pretty nurses "build up my blood pressure."
1944/01/05
"feeling good and getting better all the time"
1944/01/12
Describes boredom of hospital; reading Zane Gray and wishing for "The Cattleman," a magazine published by the Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association.
1944/01/16
Reports that he hasn't gone to church; is visited by Catholic chaplain.
1944/01/19
"I didn't have much to occupy my mind for awhile, and I was getting restless"; playing dominoes and cribbage.
1944/01/22
Hobbs is ambulatory; he tales a walk. Playing cribbage. Mentions Epstein, an American patient from New York.
1944/01/28
"I haven't been doing much besides sleeping and playing solitare"; Laurence Hon sent a picture of Cordry hat collection, in Hennessey, Oklahoma. Young men and women in Hennessey hung their hats in Cordry's store before they left for war, and picked…
1944/02/03
"never had anything but a stiff back. Am getting that worked on now."
[Note: CLH's back was injured in his plane crash of 12/21/1944.]
[Note: CLH's back was injured in his plane crash of 12/21/1944.]