What do you do when your day starts like this?

@dancingtongue i got this from Krogers and it was the first time i saw one that i cracked open myself

@LILY61 Well, I have no idea what sort of screening process the big supermarket chains and/or big factory farms use these days. But as a bedridden child, my job on Friday nights preparing for taking things to Saturday markets was to candle the eggs. And pluck pin feathers on the non-layers.

@dancingtongue that was one of the most interesting answers i have ever read here. how old were you then? why were you bed ridden?

@LILY61 Around 8-10. I had Rheumatic Fever. Recommended treatment these days is a high dosage of antibiotics. Penicillin was relatively new at that time, and all the others just dreams in research labs. My doctor felt high dosage at a young age might make me immune when I needed it for something more severe in life, Since there was little risk of damage from the disease unless I damaged the heart through over-exertion while I had it, he prescribed bed rest until the body healed itself. Of course the weekly income from those office visits for blood tests, and quarterly EKGs, were nice a hedge for his overhead costs as well. Perhaps that is why I wound up devoting 40 years of my life to a nonprofit health care system focused on affordable quality health care.

@dancingtongue wow, great answer. maybe everyone should get really sick and be homeless at some time so that they care about everyone's healthcare and care about the homeless. it would be a better world. i hope you didn't get any leftovers from having that Rheumatic fever???

@LILY61 Well, I actually had it twice as a child. But no lingering effects in adulthood.

@dancingtongue twice? i thought you only could get it once?

@LILY61 Nope. There always is the risk of a relapse if you get another serious infection. I first got it half-way through 1st grade after a bout of whooping cough and scarlet fever. Then I had a relapse from the middle of 4th grade to 7th grade after a bout with pneumonia.