Lila Bruett

Lila Bruett is a minor character who appears only in Chapter 3 of the Complete and Uncut Edition of The Stand by Stephen King. She is the wife of Norm Bruett and mother of Luke and Bobby. She likes watching soap operas such as The Young and the Restless and occasionally babysits for her friend Sally Hodges, who has three children. When Sally's youngest child Baby Cheryl has a loud cough that makes her turn purple, Lila slaps out a lot of phlegm from her and assumes it is the croup, which both her boys had. It never occurs to her she has passed on Captain Trips, which she herself got from Norm, who himself caught it from Charles Campion the night before.