February 7, 1941 (Friday)

HOUSE PRETTY COLD

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Henry awakened at 5 o'clock

feeling fine having no

soreness. Up and around

the house part of time.

I swept, dusted + mopped

Jen's house. Jen feeling

pretty good.

Dr. came again

this morning and also

to-night.

Dr. said we might

go home - so we came

home.

House pretty cold.

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I am having a hard time following Edna's timeline in this journal entry. She said Henry was up at 5. She spent the night at Jen's so unless Henry told her got up at 5 AM, I think Henry, given the "big dose of morphine" he received yesterday, slept most of the day and got up at 5 PM.

It sounds like Edna spent most of the day at Jen's. She swept and dusted and mopped. And she was there when the doctor called in the morning and the evening.

She didn't hesitate to head home when Dr. Wedel suggested that would be okay. She was probably worried about Henry. When she got home, the house was pretty cold. Henry may have told Edna he was feeling pretty good but he wasn't feeling well enough to keep the furnace running.

I think when Edna wrote "House pretty cold" she understood that Henry wasn't feeling fine.