@chiasm@ottaross@skatem@Shanitoba She experienced a rare form of eclampsia that caused a series of grand mal seizures - totally treatable these days but in a 1947 country town hospital in Australia, not something that was known, apparently. She couldn't work prior to getting married because of the hormone-related seizures that pregnancy made fatal. (Sorry for the downer on the otherwise fun thread, but it's something not well-known in these times)