A Day's Wait Ernest Heminway (1899-1961) was an American writer who often wrote abo-out relationships. The story "A Day's Wait" is about one day in the life of a father and his young son who is suffering from the flu and the mysterious fear. He came into the room to shut the windows while we were still in bed and I saw he looked ill. He was shivering, his face was white, and walked slowly as though it ached to move. "What's the matter, Schatz?" "I've got a headache." "You better go back to bed." "No. I'm all right." "You go to bed. I'll see you when I'm dresses." But when I came downstairs hew was dressed, sitting by the fire, looking a ve-ry sick and miserable boy of nine years. When I put my hand on his forehead I knew he had a fever. "You go up to bed." I said, "you're sick." "I'm all right." he said. When the doctor came he took the boy's temperature. "What is it?" I asked him. "One hundred and two." Downstairs, the doctor left three diferent medicines in different colored capsules with instruc-tions for giving them. One was to bring down the fever, another a purgative, the third to over-come an acid condition. The germs of influenza can only exist in an acid condition, he explai-ned. He seemed to know all about influenza and said there was nothing to worry about if the fever did not go above one hundred and four degrees. This was a light epidemic of flu and there was no danger if you avoided pneumonia. Back in the room I wrote the boy's temperature down and made a note of the time to give the various capsules.
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