When Juliette Low was struggling with the cancer that took her life, she seldom complained. All of her friends and co-workers attested to her fortitude and her ability to remain cheerful. Those were after-the-fact reminiscences though, because most of them did not know she was terminally ill.
However, even the stoic Juliette Gordon Low complained about a familiar and frustrating aspect of health care: “a bill as long as from London to New York!”
That was 87 years ago! I’m sure too many of you can empathize.
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Juliette Gordon Low to Jane Deeter Rippin, undated [received 12 March 1924], JGL Correspondence 1924, National Historic Preservation Center, Girl Scout National Headquarters, New York.