I'm currently recovering from a bout of cold and flu, man flu as my Missus calls it!
Being laid up last week reminded me of being ill as a kid although my childhood sicknesses were often nasty diseases peculiar to be being a child.
These included chicken pox, measles and mumps.
Such ailments required time off school - yay! - and sometimes hospitalisation - ouch!
The one good thing about a stay in the kids infirmary were gifts and especially toys.
I recall vividly getting a zeroid in hospital. It was one whose plastic box doubled as a trailer. I loved that robot and it often brought me grapes and lucozade!
I'm sure there were other toys prescribed with my medicine but I can't think of any more.
Did you get gifts when you were ill as a kid readers?
I used to get really bad tonsilitis as a kid but my gp was reluctant to remove my tonsils. On one occasion when I was bad with it, Mum bought me a corgi MGB Gt car and I've still got it (and my tonsils by the way).
ReplyDeletei always received comics from my parents when i have had flu....EW
ReplyDeleteIn 1973 I had the only surgery Ive ever had in my life.I was 5 and very scared.The day I left the hospital, My dad took me to a huge toy store called Kiddie City.He bought me the GI Joe Search for the Mummy's tomb playset.What a fantastic toy, cheered me up immediately.I still have the mummy from that set and Ill keep it forever, now that dear old dad has passed on.
ReplyDeleteIn case any experts are reading, I gave the wrong title.Its actually Secret of the Mummy's Tomb.
DeleteWhat a lovely memory Brian. Toys are powerful things. They seem to connect us to lost loved ones like few other things can. That's a set I never had. I think Kiddie City may be in John Marshall's book on collecting action figures. I'll have to check.
DeleteAfter a visit to the dentist I was taken to the toy shop to choose a small plastic Wiking car for the H0 train set. Don't think I got anything just for being sick at home (except extra time to read, build model kits or play with the Lego or the train set :)
ReplyDeleteBest -- Paul
That's a lovely memory too Paul. Dentistry deserves prezzies! Ouch! Have you still got the car?
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