penni, I DO think you're wrong. I understand and take your point, but...
Evidently Edwarda, though she didn't live in a vacuum, doesn't have anyone close enough to her to have MADE her see a doctor. If her neighbors hadn't been worried, she'd never have gone to the hospital at all.
Yes, in a sense all this is an invasion of Edwarda's privacy, but having your privacy invaded is better than dying because no one cared.
I posted earlier about people who live alone. You haven't done in a great many years, so perhaps you don't quite understand.
I think much of the discussion here is potentially helpful. Certainly that which addresses "how she treated her illnesses". Who would know about it, other than the people she was in communication with? She does, as I say, live alone. PMs won't do the trick: we need to find as many people as we can who communicated with her once she got sick, and that can only be done with a live thread.
I really don't think she'd mind. When she reads it I think she'll be enormously touched by everyone's concern, and by the outpouring of affection. |
