In October 1943, sixteen-year-old Marilyn Barnes was told that her recent bout of pneumonia was in fact tuberculosis.
Marilyn loved to write, and the Story of her three-year residency at the sanatorium is preserved in hundreds of letters that she mailed b.
Her recovery required many months of bed rest and medical care.
In January, her Tuberculosis spread, and she nearly died.
She entered Ah-gwah-ching State Sanatorium at Walker, Minnesota, for what she thought would be a short stay.
In October 1943, sixteen-year-old Marilyn Barnes was told that her recent bout of pneumonia was in fact tuberculosis