Posted by
lauren
Sorry if I duplicated - I posted as question and now as topic. (really trying to find the answer.)
In 1931 my 2-year-old mother woke up in the Chicago county hospital with severe gonorrhea. She was hospitalized for 6 months - no visitors - including Christmas. (This story breaks my heart.) My grandmother was a recent non-english-speaking Hungarian immigrant who lived in the slums sharing a one-room tenement with several strange families. No toilet/tub/shower, rats (one chewed the fingers of another infant.) I suspect my mother contracted gonorrhea by either: 1) thru my grandmother at birth (perhaps my grandmother had to resort to prostitution during the depression - or perhaps my grandmother contracted thru my mother's father? -yet my grandfather tested negative at the time which is why he was given custody; or 2) by being raped as an infant (my grandmother would go to work and leave my mother with these strangers.) Note my grandmother lost custody over this (to my abusive german grandfather - used to torture animals) and my mother didn't see her mother again until age 8 when she won back custody - due to neglect by my grandfather.
How does a 2-year-old contract gonorrhea?
Posted by lauren
Sorry if I duplicated - I posted as question and now as topic. (really trying to find the answer.)
In 1931 my 2-year-old mother woke up in the Chicago county hospital with severe gonorrhea. She was hospitalized for 6 months - no visitors - including Christmas. (This story breaks my heart.) My grandmother was a recent non-english-speaking Hungarian immigrant who lived in the slums sharing a one-room tenement with several strange families. No toilet/tub/shower, rats (one chewed the fingers of another infant.) I suspect my mother contracted gonorrhea by either: 1) thru my grandmother at birth (perhaps my grandmother had to resort to prostitution during the depression - or perhaps my grandmother contracted thru my mother's father? -yet my grandfather tested negative at the time which is why he was given custody; or 2) by being raped as an infant (my grandmother would go to work and leave my mother with these strangers.) Note my grandmother lost custody over this (to my abusive german grandfather - used to torture animals) and my mother didn't see her mother again until age 8 when she won back custody - due to neglect by my grandfather.