sf > wrote:

>On Thu, 07 May 2009 18:51:32 -0600, Greg Goss > wrote:
>
>>sf > wrote:
>>
>>>On May 7, 4:23*pm, Greg Goss > wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> For my father, the DND requested a sample of lung tissue and issued an
>>>> additional medal and a bigger pension to his widow. *They concluded
>>>> that he died in 1992 as a result of shipboard conditions in WW II --
>>>> that his death was at least partly related to the TB he'd caught forty
>>>> years earlier.
>>>
>>>Just curious. Did your father appear to be symptom free during those
>>>40 years?
>>
>>Part of the treatment involved collapsing one of his lungs.
>
>Ow. Do you know what stage he was in?

No idea. My mother met him as a volunteer "at the San" in the
fifties, which is a long time after "the war", so recovery was very
slow. The treatments for TB weren't very effective in the forties.
--
Tomorrow is today already.
Greg Goss, 1989-01-27