Summer At the Lake
“It was his third visit to check on Marco since he arrived four days ago from Venice with his aunt. The diagnosis was chronic bronchitis and instructions had been given that his patient was to be confined to bed in a well-ventilated room with regular steam inhalations given, poultices applied to his chest and medicine taken three times a day to ease his cough. A light diet was advised and only when Dottor Romano permitted it would Marco be allowed to venture outdoors.
The light diet was anathema... to Elena the cook who was of the opinion that doctors knew nothing and what Marco needed was building up with hearty dishes of beans, polenta and pasta. With tears in her eyes and much crossing of herself and repeated exclamations of Grazie al cielo! she had told Esme in the herb garden yesterday that she had known Marco since he was a small boy and had seen him nearly die from whooping cough. Ever since then he had suffered with a weak chest and every day she had doubted the wisdom of his leaving the lake where the air was so much better than in Rome where he was in his first year in seminary.MoreLess
The light diet was anathema... to Elena the cook who was of the opinion that doctors knew nothing and what Marco needed was building up with hearty dishes of beans, polenta and pasta. With tears in her eyes and much crossing of herself and repeated exclamations of Grazie al cielo! she had told Esme in the herb garden yesterday that she had known Marco since he was a small boy and had seen him nearly die from whooping cough. Ever since then he had suffered with a weak chest and every day she had doubted the wisdom of his leaving the lake where the air was so much better than in Rome where he was in his first year in seminary.MoreLess
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