Before My Earliest Memories

The recent spate of public service commercials about the necessity of Whooping Cough vaccines has triggered in my memory something I know only because I heard my mother tell it so many times. I was but six months old when I contracted Whooping Cough. Mommie said I coughed and whooped so hard I turned blue and she feared I would die.Then I vomited. Keeping enough food in my stomach was difficult causing fear of my general health for I was a thin baby from birth.

When I watch the current commercials with the grandmother with the wolf face, I cannot help,but wonder if in my six month old perception, when I looked in the face of my grandmother holding me tight for comfort I saw the face of a wolf.