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The eye was sealed off with a bandage and he didn't see out of it for two or three weeks. The only remaining thing to do was to tell him to stay in bed and not use his eyes. He could see out of the other eye; the other eye wasn't infected, thank God.

Well, this was one of the most frightening things I've ever seen. The doctor obviously didn't know anything at all about what to do, and here was a man who was in the prime of his life and who was threatened with the loss of his eye. It was touch and go whether or not it would have to be removed.

Well, I was terrified, but thank God, the infection gradually subsided and he was all right and his vision wasn't lost.

A little bit later my father had a series of strokes; two mild strokes first and then in 1933 he had one and died. Now, I asked the doctors what was a stroke, and they said, “Well, it's due to atherosclerosis and hardening of the arteries, and it was really the will of God and nothing can be done about it.” This I didn't really believe, but it was obvious that they couldn't do anything about it. I was infuriated but I didn't know what to do; I didn't have a large amount of money to offer to anybody to do research in that area and I didn't have any influence with the press or people in medicine to do anything that would cause any crusade about it. But I was influenced by it.

Subconsciously, you were filing all these things away.

Yes, yes. Then in 1940, no 1939, my mother had what