“The Adoption of Charlie Keenan” Mentions Dr. Mary Ghostley
Author’s Mother Has Health Issues as Child: Vigoren’s mother, Blanche Jespersen, was born in 1913. Two years later, Dr. Mary Ghostley found that Blanche was blind in her right eye. Dr. Mary wondered whether the child had been born without sight in that eye or if she had injured it. She believed the eye should…