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Laura Davis letters to her husband Lloyd Davis, January-May 1944

1944-04-21 Laura Davis to Lloyd Davis Page 1

April 21, 1944
Dearest,
This is a funny sort of letter. I saved these maps from the Hut. The church bulletin will give you an idea of some of the things I thought about on Easter Sunday. I've meant to send these things before as I'd saved them for that purpose. So because I didn't have so much to write about tonight, I thought this would be a good time for me to send them.
I guess I'll tell you about my two shingles. You've heard of shingles as an illness. It is a skin eruption near the end of nerves in the skin surface. I have only two, under my right arm. I've had them three weeks or so, and didn't know what they were. I finally decided it was a fungus and so went to Dr. Erskine. He was gone but Dr. Prouty, his partner, looked at it. (that was yesterday). There is no treatment except to keep them dry, he said, unless they go real bad. They are better now than a couple weeks ago, but are a

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April 21, 1944 Dearest, This is a funny sort of letter. I saved these maps from the Hut. The church bulletin will give you an idea of some of the things I thought about on Easter Sunday. I've meant to send these things before as I'd saved them for that purpose. So because I didn't have so much to write about tonight, I thought this would be a good time for me to send them. I guess I'll tell you about my two shingles. You've heard of shingles as an illness. It is a skin eruption near the end of nerves in the skin surface. I have only two, under my right arm. I've had them three weeks or so, and didn't know what they were. I finally decided it was a fungus and so went to Dr. Erskine. He was gone but Dr. Prouty, his partner, looked at it. (that was yesterday). There is no treatment except to keep them dry, he said, unless they go real bad. They are better now than a couple weeks ago, but are a