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Eve Drewelowe's journals, volumes II-III, 1950s
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102 overpowering attacks. It was one of the very worst of seasons and continued well along until after frost. Driving home by car from New York was not one of the most pleasant experiences in the world. Hay fever, as already has been mentioned, according to my knowledge began for me a few years prior to the world excursion. In fact it must have appeared in its most obvious state about the same time that "I am A STOMACH" because the major pattern that it has continued & be throughout my life since that time. At its worst it can be most disturbing, desperately aggrevating and maddening. And these features it has in common with the other allergic annoyances of origin. On very windy days with the added exposure to the pollen laden air which has been stirred into motion then really bad sieges occur. The nly thing that makes [hiring?] with [boy finer?] at all undeniable is the fact that so often a very disconcerting attack may be followed by a "letter" day of a relatively great degree of comfort. Who really knows why this should be so? If several "worst" days however, follow on each others heels in quick succession as strangely enough they seldomly do -- the point of saturation and endurance is quickly reached and a state of despiration is evoked. Given enough of the calamitous intervals then, punctuated only by the so-called "better" but nevertheless but slightly relieved periods, corrodes the endurance and the resistance and each succeeding onslaught leaves one in a more ill condition than the prior attack.
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102 overpowering attacks. It was one of the very worst of seasons and continued well along until after frost. Driving home by car from New York was not one of the most pleasant experiences in the world. Hay fever, as already has been mentioned, according to my knowledge began for me a few years prior to the world excursion. In fact it must have appeared in its most obvious state about the same time that "I am A STOMACH" because the major pattern that it has continued & be throughout my life since that time. At its worst it can be most disturbing, desperately aggrevating and maddening. And these features it has in common with the other allergic annoyances of origin. On very windy days with the added exposure to the pollen laden air which has been stirred into motion then really bad sieges occur. The nly thing that makes [hiring?] with [boy finer?] at all undeniable is the fact that so often a very disconcerting attack may be followed by a "letter" day of a relatively great degree of comfort. Who really knows why this should be so? If several "worst" days however, follow on each others heels in quick succession as strangely enough they seldomly do -- the point of saturation and endurance is quickly reached and a state of despiration is evoked. Given enough of the calamitous intervals then, punctuated only by the so-called "better" but nevertheless but slightly relieved periods, corrodes the endurance and the resistance and each succeeding onslaught leaves one in a more ill condition than the prior attack.
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