She’d suffered an appendicitis attack, one that required her to undergo an operation and spend three nights at the Texas Crippled Children’s Hospital (now the Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children). The other seven days, presumably, she spent at home, recuperating. Something did change in Sally, though, after the operation. She grew more pensive. Josephine Kagamaster observed that the girl did not move like a “healthy, light-hearted youngster.” She’d heard La Salle say the girl “walks like an old woman.”
