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Eve Drewelowe's journals, volumes II-III, 1950s
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trick period on a continuation of this same program in the elimination diet, sedatives, alcoholics, antacids and physiotherapy. Things did not go too well. There was much night distress. I was unaccountably nervous and jerky. The reflexes were playing. After two weeks I was back at the Clinic for a rechecking and a reranting - if necessary - before I could return to Boulder. An elimination diet indeed. I had lost five pounds in these fourteen days, I began to wonder whether it was I who was to be removed, or whether it was to be the ford that was to be sorted out. As always with we the elimination diet was stalled in a blind alley. There was much more to the distress than allergies; much more that was not apparent. If distress is a mere mother of food allergies the patient becomes comfortable after a forty-eight hour program upon innocuous substances. Because I could not be made distress-free, I was put through another series of x-rays and examinations before the doctors were satisfied that nothing was to be gained through that approach. Dr Alvarez had spent a great deal of time upon my case. The truly had been very good to me throughout these works - except of course in the matter of the little experiments in the diet kitchen. but I don't hold them against him for after all we did learn some facts by those methods, that it was the sole purpose of the elimination diet, - to find facts and thereby get a line on stomach problems. During these works under the care and supervision of Dr Alvarez, he talked a great deal to me in his friendly, sympathetic fatherly manner. He of course tried to learn me, and I appreciated his advice and council. One day in a respective mood, I asked him whether it would be a good idea, in his opinion, for me to have a family. "With your make-up and temperament," he said, "children undoubtedly would get on your nerves too much, I would not advice such an experiment. In fact, I think, perhaps you are very fortunate to have as family." To Dr Alvarez may also be attributed these statements from his little talks on how to manage my affairs and me: "You will have to live with your sensitivities," said he, "simply because
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trick period on a continuation of this same program in the elimination diet, sedatives, alcoholics, antacids and physiotherapy. Things did not go too well. There was much night distress. I was unaccountably nervous and jerky. The reflexes were playing. After two weeks I was back at the Clinic for a rechecking and a reranting - if necessary - before I could return to Boulder. An elimination diet indeed. I had lost five pounds in these fourteen days, I began to wonder whether it was I who was to be removed, or whether it was to be the ford that was to be sorted out. As always with we the elimination diet was stalled in a blind alley. There was much more to the distress than allergies; much more that was not apparent. If distress is a mere mother of food allergies the patient becomes comfortable after a forty-eight hour program upon innocuous substances. Because I could not be made distress-free, I was put through another series of x-rays and examinations before the doctors were satisfied that nothing was to be gained through that approach. Dr Alvarez had spent a great deal of time upon my case. The truly had been very good to me throughout these works - except of course in the matter of the little experiments in the diet kitchen. but I don't hold them against him for after all we did learn some facts by those methods, that it was the sole purpose of the elimination diet, - to find facts and thereby get a line on stomach problems. During these works under the care and supervision of Dr Alvarez, he talked a great deal to me in his friendly, sympathetic fatherly manner. He of course tried to learn me, and I appreciated his advice and council. One day in a respective mood, I asked him whether it would be a good idea, in his opinion, for me to have a family. "With your make-up and temperament," he said, "children undoubtedly would get on your nerves too much, I would not advice such an experiment. In fact, I think, perhaps you are very fortunate to have as family." To Dr Alvarez may also be attributed these statements from his little talks on how to manage my affairs and me: "You will have to live with your sensitivities," said he, "simply because
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