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Replies to "I wonder if it was rheumatic fever. My father-in-law had that and it also left him..."
You are correct. Medicines have come a long way. I did not have rheumatic fever. I do not have heart issues. However, I did survive scarlet fever. Nothing for that either. Now you are given an antibiotic and it is over in about a week. I spent a long time in a hospital for communicable diseases. That was my sole treatment. I was 10 years old.
You are probably correct that it was rheumatic fever; stories can "evolve" in the re-telling.
I remember my mother expressing her fear of polio. It terrified generations, but thanks to modern medicine is all but forgotten today.