By Land and By Air

Edwin MacKenzie drove the car to Prince Edward Island, taking Irene’s husband, Elmer Livingstone, and their children, 11 year old Sadie and Clarence, almost six years old. I sat in the front seat with Edwin, in an unheated car, driving to High Bank during a snowstorm. We got stuck on the Wood Island hill in Montague and had to detour. Did you ever try to drive in an unheated car in the dead of winter? Edwin MacKenzie got some anti-freeze at a garage and every few minutes, he wiped the frost off the windshield - was I ever cold when I arrived at High Bank. We had the funeral the following day. I cannot recall how I got back to Dalhousie.

After finishing 4th year, we were given two weeks off. I and Hubert McNeill got a job gardening which meant cleaning plots for a rose bed or digging holes for fence posts. At least we were able to get the sunshine.

INTERN YEAR

My first posting as an intern was to the I.W.I<. Children’s Hospital, Halifax - think of the poor children whose veins I had to find to take their blood. We had a Resident Doctor for only two weeks, and he went to train in England to be a plastic Surgeon. This meant that if I could not find a vein, I either had to do a cut down, or call a staff man which was not appreciated, as I soon learned. When I got to the Victoria General Hospital working on adults, their veins looked like ropes. I think I could almost find a vein with my eyes closed. My experience in the Children's Hospital really helped me in later life.

My first assist in surgery was the correction of a squint eye. I remember a small girl with Meningitis. Every day I had to draw some fluid from the brain and

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