Photo-Jane and Jer and I

Here is a photo from about mid-1967. The baby is my brother Jerald and the girl holding the baby is my older sister Jane. I am the one on the left. The white thing around my neck is a diaper that has been converted into a sling for my broken left arm.

My sister Karen and I had been over at the neighbor girl's house playing the Three Stooges on the top of her picnic table and I fell off, hitting my arm on a pine tree root, breaking the outside forearm bone near the wrist.

At the time my mother was in Amherst Hospital having her severely diseased gallbladder removed and my dad made the mistake of telling me that she was just down the hall when he took me to the hospital for X-rays. Of course, I wanted to go see her and wasn't allowed. I do recall going to stand outside the hospital and waving to her from the sidewalk while she looked out the window. Vastly different from today.

So Pinky says...