Arriving in Montana within the Eighteen Nineties, his Norwegian-American forebears claimed rural homesteads and began to farm. By the mid-Twentieth century, two of his grandparents had died of rheumatic coronary heart illness, which — as all of us discovered in medical faculty — generally follows an untreated case of group A strep (GAS) pharyngitis. Round 1950, whereas in sixth grade, he himself suffered pharyngitis and scarlet fever. A couple of weeks later, his urine turned rusty-red.
It was not till the longer term doctor spied his personal darkened urine — which, in hindsight, strongly advised post-streptococcal glomerulonephritis, a kidney illness