Catholic by Grace | Different approaches can help what ails us
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In 1976, while the rest of the United States celebrated the bicentennial, I was enduring "The Year of the Tonsils." Those tonsils landed me in the Howard County Hospital twice that year. On the second occasion, the doctor removed them.
I remember two of the nurses who worked the surgical wing as polar opposites. They were both from the Sisters of Mercy, who had been petitioned to take over the small Iowa hospital in the early 1900s. That is where their similarities ended.
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