As time went by, Edie started to feel a little better. She craved pineapple juice. So, the doctor ordered all she wanted. She swore that was what healed her. Today we have found out pineapple is a healer.
While lying on her stomach at that time, Edie took up crocheting again. She also took up a sport of throwing string beans at a patient's big toe from across the room (In the 1940s, hospitals had wards where several people shared the same room.) one bean at a time and if she hit the lady's toe both Edie and the old lady would yell. The lady was a loud foreigner and she would yell in her native tongue for Edie to stop, but she had a slight smile. Edie yelled because this would be a novelty for her to hit this woman's toe even though she was very good at playing darts.
The nurses were not happy with having to clean up the string beans and they let Edie know it. All the while, they were laughing under their breath.
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