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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hallmark Channel has shows like that.

I remember when the daughter cousin Mary Ellen Ingalls went blind. Those episodes were genuinely frightening. Didn't she wake up screaming? [/quote]

Yo7 hi conflated two characters.

Mary Ellen was the eldest daughter on The Waltons

Mary Ingalls was the older sister of Laura Ingalls in Little House on the Prairie.  She became blind due to scarlet fever.

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I had Scarlett fever in 4th grade in the 1970s. My mom made a big deal about it. That show frightened me.

And the blonde girl with the pigtails was so mean. [/quote]

Did your parents not believe in antibiotics?  Scarlet fever is just strep so has not been a big problem since antibiotics became widely available after WW2.  And although it can kill you bu infecting your heart (what happened to Beth in Little Women) it doesn’t make you go blind.  Wilder used scarlet fever in the book because people had heard of scarlet fever but it was almost certainly encephalitis that made her sister go blind.[/quote]

I got it too, in the 80's. I was immune to the antibiotics so they were completely ineffective at treatment and it progressed. [/quote]

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