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Now it gets a wee bit more interesting because my dad use to tell the story of his mum leaving him in hospital for 18 months after pulling down a pot of boiling water onto himself when he was around 2, he did have slight healed burn marks on one of his arms. But even still would a mother leave her child for 18 months in hospital? It just doesn't make sense.
His birth Certificate does note my GM & GF as his parents but I am also aware that records weren't adverse to being modified.
I am probably looking too much into it, however I was wondering if there are more experienced researchers who could shed some light onto the regularity of adoptions within families and whether I am just looking for excitement in an otherwise very boring lot of ancestors
Many thanks
Ariela
There have been great advances in medicines and operations during our lifetime and it's a mistake to compare the long stays in hospital of yesteryear with the advanced keyhole surgery of today.
My mother had an operation for stomach ulcers in the early 1950s and discharged herself on Christmas Eve after being confined to a hospital bed for SIX MONTHS. In those days the hospital treatment was initially to have an operation to remove the appendix prior to having the main operation.. She wouldn't need that operation today, as the "ulcers" were caused by a 'flu type virus, and it would have been treated with a couple of penicillin tablets.
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