Memoir
Dicing With Death — Part 1
I Always Suffered Indifferent Health
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6 min readApr 26, 2024
I’ve diced with death several times — many times due to my health. It started from the very beginning. I almost didn’t make it and was born two months early. Then, I developed rubella, followed by complications including my first bout of pneumonia — while in an incubator.
Hey… it was a Navy hospital in the early 1960s.
Things didn’t get much better health-wise. Within the first few months of my fragile baby life, I was diagnosed with…