When we lived in Egypt you couldn’t buy tampons. All the expats would bring them from visits home. I think they had been available at some time but then some religious man apparently thought girls got some pleasure from them. That’s what we were told anyway.
I was traveling for work this week, and Thursday night was in Atlanta. On a PBS TV station I watched the first two episodes of “Partners in Crime”, an Agatha Christie mystery, starring Jessica Raine, who was midwife Jenny Lee.
She plays Tuppence Beresford, part of the Tommy and Tuppence detective novel series by Agatha Christie.
If you have AcornTV, it’s available there. It was a BBC TV series, but there are only 6 episodes - 3 for each adapted story.
Are the early episodes available to watch anywhere. I think it was 2-3 seasons in before I started watching it.
Netflix has Call the Midwife.
What a sad episode. 
I watched the very first episode on Netflix today. Had never seen the first couple of years and thoroughly enjoyed it. So tempting to watch episode 2 but I’d regret it in the morning! Should keep me happy for a week or 2.
Was it ever discussed on the show how she contracted septicemia?
Such a heartbreaking episode but so good. I saw it coming but I still cried.
Phyllis Crane has become my favorite character. Tom sure is handsome. :x
@college_query I don’t remember the storyline addressing how she contracted it.
Tom made me sad, but Phyllis just broke me. Dr. Turner’s care for that young inmate’s physical and emotional well being was so touching. I wondered if the young man’s MIL had influenced the board reviewing his case.
I read online that Charlotte Ritchie wanted to leave the show since she felt that her character’s arc had kind of played out, although I wonder if she really meant she was seeking other acting opportunities.
http://www.radiotimes.com/news/tv/2018-04-27/call-the-midwife-nurse-barbara-charlotte-ritchie-septicaemia-bbc-storyline-future/
I wish they had had a more uplifting birth story to counterbalance Barbara.
So incredibly sad…
Does anyone know anybody in real life that has had septicemia?
I was reading up on it and the death rate can still be fairly high. Interest map of mortality rates by state. The variation by state is really shocking!
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/sosmap/septicemia_mortality/septicemia.htm
I also had to look up scabies since I don’t recall ever hearing of anyone developing it, much less a large group.
What a saint Dr.Turner is!
I know what scabies is because one of my kids has had issues with eczema and the daycare called me at work once to pick up my toddler because they were convinced it was scabies. Missed the rest of the day of work and was forced to take the kid to the pediatrician to document that yes it was just eczema and not scabies.
That was so, so sad. Now I wonder what will happen with Trixie, like @Consolation predicted.
Barbara had meningococcemia. Maybe septicemia was easier for the actors to say. The mortality rate is more than 40% today.
The episode was way too sad for me.
I did know someone years ago in London who contracted scabies on a vacation somewhere. Don’t remember the details but remember it was itchy and one of the ways they come to suspect scabies was because of lines in the skin from where the thing moves (ugh).
I have heard of people with meningitis having to have limbs amputated. I assume that is from septicemia (but may be adding 2+2 and getting 5)
I still believe Trixie belongs with the dentist and hope the writers will figure out a way to make that happen. I don’t thik that Tom could bear the memories of being linked to another midwife, even though real life Tom and real life Trixie are a couple.
“Barbara had meningococcemia.”
My understanding is that it is also called meningococcal septicemia.