Goomba > wrote in
:

> Steve Pope wrote:
>> Michel Boucher > wrote:
>>
>>> In Québec, there was a turluteuse in the 1930's called La Bolduc, a
>>> self- taught musician and composer. She went from housewife to
>>> being the most popular singer alive in Québec, the first to be able
>>> to earn a living from record sales alone, all in the space of two
>>> years and performed for the following ten years even through
>>> chemotherapy for a malignant tumour (of which she died).
>>
>> They had chemotherapy in the 1930's? I had no idea.
>>
>> Steve
>
> Well, actually it sounds as if she had radiation therapy.
> My mother had radiation therapy as a young child in the 30's.

Yes, I believe I corrected myself :-) I had intended to say radiation
therapy but I said chemo instead.

In my defense I am under the effects of a very nasty cold virus which has
plagued me for the past week and because of which I am taking the week off
(with medical certificate).