BLOGGER NEARLY DIES OF ASTHMAN ATTACK IN AUG IN DES MOINES
The heat index in three digits all week, mid -August, summer nearly over, the weekend passing from Sunday to Monday morning, and I lay gasping for air. The year was 1957. Our house was on a plane that channeled breezes, when there were any. Open fields to the north and to the south. My father used... Sign in to see full entry.