Pirate Girl I was thinking about you being a nurse and I remembered a very interesting nurse that I met when I was a general flunky/delivery boy for a independent pharmacy. Miss Lonie was over 100 years old when I first met her, she was taking care of her brother, once upon a time she was a nurse in the yellow fever ward in a hospital in Mobile Alabama. Even at her age she was sharp as a tack, after her brother died she moved from the old homestead to a small house and she lived alone, I would deliver to her as I was going home unless the need was urgent. She love to talk and she had lived in the time before cars and she told me how they traveled . To get to work she went by horse and wagon to Blakley Alabama, since it took a few days to make the trip they would stay at folks houses along the way, at Blakley she would take a ferry to Mobile then get a ride to the hospital where she would work for a month or two at a time. Her family owed a bunch of land and ran a turpentine operation, she would go with her brother to collect the turpentine and take it to Pensacola Florida, a trip that would take a week or two to complete, she remembered all the details. I very rarely got out of there in less than a hour and I enjoyed every minute of my stay, she lived to be around 114 if I remember correctly.