Physical description

Stapled illustrated booklet, Black and white photograph of the author as a young woman on front cover. Title and author's name in black print above and below sketch of building and trees in background

Publication type

non-fiction

Inscriptions & markings

Inside front cover at base is is a coloured donation sticker. Badge of the AHNL under which are printed the words 'This book was donated to AHNL Inc-Nursing Archives by' BARBARA POTTER/ GRAD 1952 2019 (handwritten in black ink).At top right of title page previous catalogue number [handwritten in black ink] Inside front cover is taped a letter to the donor from 'Heather', with information about the author. Taped to the title page is a letter to the donor from AHNL Nursing Archives

Summary

This story is about the author starting off her studies at University only to become ill with pleurisy, which did not improve, the result was a break in University studies, bed rest and a referral to the part-time Director of Tuberculosis in Victoria. The author describes the different phases of her illness, her life at Greenvale Sanatorium, her friendships with other
patients, her family and the subsequent treatment in the 1940's for people suffering with TB. Greenvale was a close knit environment, everyone was fighting to stay alive, but some didn't.