Dirgin nd tows by Virginia

HERE AND THERE WITH VIRGINIA

(Continued from TVia No. 70)

When I finally arrived in Copenhagen I was met by Winnie, one of our Danish FPs and driven to Amer. Express for mail from home (and a list of the problems poor Mary was trying to deal with in my absence), then to the hotel to check in and change and finally to Ernas home for a marvelous dinner and reunion with her, her parents and many of the girls I'd met in 1969. It was all marvelous except for me and my by that time terrible cough and laryngitis. Angelica, one of our girls, is also an MD and she got me a prescription which helped a bit but not much.

TUESDAY: Last night in the hotel was really frightening. I'd wake up with a violent cough, exhaust all the air in my lungs and then have a spasm of the larynx which prevented my breathing any air back in for what seemed like an age. I thought I was a goner several times. I finally discovered that a swallow of water going down would open up the channel so that some air could follow but it was and continued to be for several weeks a very frightening and disturbing phenomenon. I got to leaving glasses of water in whatever rooms I'd be in and carrying a plastic bottle of water in my purse so it wasn't any fun. This afternoon we had a press conference which resulted in write ups in several of the large Danish papers. They took pictures too and one of them showed me with Winnie and Evy. Afterward Evy got to worrying about the effects on her wife if they printed that picture. Well, of course they did and the next night I asked her about the reaction and she said "my marriage is hanging by a thread." Next night she reported a little im- provement and by the end of the week things were O.K. Turned out that the wife's father, of all people, and then her mother, took Evy's side and told the wife, "you know what kind of person he is and we

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