re: #373 Hecuba’s daughter

My grandparents were all born in the 19th century in Eastern Europe, in the 1880’s. My father’s father died in the 1920’s of appendicitis. My mother’s father and my father’s mother died in the 1950’s when I was a young child and I never really knew them. I was close to my mother’s mother, who passed away in the 1970’s at age 85.

My mother, born in 1921, survived an emergency appendectomy when she was a toddler. She was fussy, and then went into a seizure from the pain, I assume. Famous because my grandfather bit through the stem of his pipe when it happened!