The 100 Days Cough. That was the nickname of pertussis.
Imagine if you can, having six children (15mos-10yrs) all sick with whooping cough. At the same time. For 3 continuous months. Memorial Day until after Labor Day.
This was my mother's life the summer of 1958. Or, as she calls it "The Summer of No-Sleep".
With the recent occurrences of Pertussis here in the Pacific Northwest in the news almost nightly, my mother's memories of that awful summer have been brought back to life.
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