I was a registered nurse attached to the RCAF. While I was nursing at the RCAF Hospital in Trenton, I contracted rheumatic fever about October 1944. I was quite ill sometime before it became worse and I found myself reporting to sick bay. After the medical officer examined me, I was mad a bed patient immediately. I remained a bed patient for six months before I was allowed to return to duty in the hospital.

During the six months of convalescence I learned, with pleasure, to do many handicrafts. I learned from a friend in the CWAC whose husband was working in the YMCA, and one of his duties was teaching handicrafts. I learned to make gloves, slippers, purses, as well as many ornamental and useful novelties.

In 1945 I was discharged on Christmas Day, Dec. 25, 1945. Rather unusual, but it was the last day I worked. It climaxed when the staff had a party for me in my honour.