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This story about measles is not the main issue.It turned out that people ,although real enemies,sometimes did not behave as was expected of them.
One morning I was called to go and help out in Peds. as they were really busy.
When I got there I was told to take care of the kids with measles.I went to the nurse in charge and told her that I never had the measles.She looked at me and said:"I am sure you must have had the measles.Every child has had the measles before the age you are now".
"No, I never had them,honestly!" In the Dutch Indies kids never got measles( till after the Jap.occupation we learned later.) Nursing Service was called and I had to stay in Peds with the measles
So I did .But on Jan 6th '43 I woke up feeling terrible.My room mate went to the hospital and said that I was so sick that I couldn't come to work.They were going to check it out.
I ended up being carried down on a stretcher to the Pavillion of Infectious Diseases.I got a room with all the necessary equipment to keep me inside.The physician who took care of the nurses was very nice guy and Jewish. We all knew it .How did he land in a hospital like this one where half of the beds were taken over by the Germans? These German M.D.s were middleaged and from the Wehrmacht so not SS or the more vicious out fits.Quite often the German M.D. in charge did rounds with Ch. v. D .- our docter- discussing problems with a patient either one had.-I was not discussed except that I was too old to have the measles.-I had my small Philips radio on my nightstand hidden under a towel and a large map of Russia where the the battle of Stalingrad was fought.
One night I woke up shivering,I felt really sick.The R.N who took care of me called Ch. v. D out of bed. What was going on?My temp. shot up to 106.4. Everything was crystal clear,I heard the staff talking:One said:"Lets call the priest, i don't think she'll make it."I said:"I heard that!I am not going to die (That hospital padre was a local guy,with a heavy local accent.When he was called for the last rites he went up to the patient, pinched the patient in the upper arm and said loud:"Do you feel me pinching you?"Depending on the answer, the patient got or did not get the last rites.)My temp must have slowly gone down after they put icepacks in my arm pits and groins. But the I really felt terrible.Morning came and the different dr's, including the German one, held a conference outside my door.Several tests were run,but my temp stayed upThe German m.d. gave my md..d sulfa tablets to bring down what they said must have been a bacterial infection This was a new medicine.Then it was decided that a sternum puncture should be performed to see whether the marrow showed any abnormalities.Another one who had taken refuge in this hospital was a Russian Female M.D who worked in the Lab. She was tall and and a person of few words. I was prepped:No Local, No shots to make me woosey.The only words she said to me was:"Just lie very still".!Well I thought I was nailed to the bed:It HURT!!The procedure over,I still did not get anything to make me feel better except for a bowl of jello.The different doctors in attendance outside my room disappeared.The result of the puncture was NEG.
After the war my husband and I visited Ch. v. D who was in charge of a largeTB hospital and we asked how it was possible that he and the female Russian M.D.. did not get hauled off to a concentration camp? Ch.said:" the German M.D.'s in charge were decent fellows,no followers of Hitler and the staff was told that their job was to take care of patients and not jeopardize that care by sending good
people to concentration camps."I always wondered whether this humane M.D .survived the war.

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