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Show l55 In early January, Eyring left again to return to Madison and Mrs. Eyring began teaching the winter term at Utah. not be as pleasant. Their next meeting would Just after Christmas, several cases of spinal menin- gitis had been reported in Salt Lake City and some patients had died. Mrs. Eyring, in fact, talked about the disease in her hygiene class and knew the symptoms. She began feeling ill on Saturday, but assumed that it was a case of the flu, but by Sunday evening she was unconscious. A wire reached Eyring on Monday and reported that his wife had meningitis. He did not arrive until Thursday morning, the day his wife regained consciousness. Mrs. Eyring's doctors gave him no hope of recovery, but she survived the dreaded disease. After three weeks in the hospital, she was allowed to go home, but still faced a long recovery period. Her mother and sister Ivy agreed to take care of her so he could return to _his work in the east. Shortly after his arrival, he received word that a post doctoral fellowship to study in Berlin at the Haber Institute had been awarded to him. Mrs. Eyring was well enough to join her husband in Madison by July l929, but was concerned about taking a trip to Europe, since at the time she could still not sit up longer than ten minutes at a time. The doctors in Madison told her that it would probably be another year before she would feel comfortable. She decided that she could lie in a bed in Berlin as well as anywhere else and so they left for Germany and a year's research in Berlin. In Berlin, Mrs. Eyring was very uncomfortable until February of 1930, but from then on she made a rapid recovery. By April, she was able to keep up with her husband as they enjoyed the traditional spring vacation together by visiting sites throughout Europe. In addition to |
