Transcribe
Translate
Eve Drewelowe's journals, volumes II-III, 1950s
Page 059
More information
digital collection
archival collection guide
transcription tips
my hands elbows on the table, for thirty, for fifty, for sixty minutes. Who knows how long before I could go to my room. My cold potatoes and my registration cards all disregarded reposed on the table left behind me. Nevertheless I was back that evening for more cold and hot potatoes, and I stayed with the prescribed diet for the specified length of time. Yet distress was with me Then we tried more days on a milk diet and this being more simple was easier to take. And still the distress both by day and by night remained unaltered. From this we proceeded to days on buttermilk without encouragement. However not completely disheartened we went from buttermilk to two days without any food whatsoever. With the no food diet however, Dr [Alvarez?] gave me a prescription for codein tablets with the following instructions, "Have this prescription filled and then whenever you have pain take one." I kept count on the inside cover of the box, noting the time I took the diminutive tablets. Curiously, the tablets did not deaden the pain as they were supposed to do but actually increased my discomfort. I however, kept on taking the codein tablets one by one. The following afternoon I reported to Dr [Alvarez?] and showed him the record of the pills on the box lid. He threw up his hands in horrified incriduality with the statement, "It would be best for a girl like you not to begin to take drugs, (meaning opiates) smoking or drinking." inferring -
Saving...
prev
next
my hands elbows on the table, for thirty, for fifty, for sixty minutes. Who knows how long before I could go to my room. My cold potatoes and my registration cards all disregarded reposed on the table left behind me. Nevertheless I was back that evening for more cold and hot potatoes, and I stayed with the prescribed diet for the specified length of time. Yet distress was with me Then we tried more days on a milk diet and this being more simple was easier to take. And still the distress both by day and by night remained unaltered. From this we proceeded to days on buttermilk without encouragement. However not completely disheartened we went from buttermilk to two days without any food whatsoever. With the no food diet however, Dr [Alvarez?] gave me a prescription for codein tablets with the following instructions, "Have this prescription filled and then whenever you have pain take one." I kept count on the inside cover of the box, noting the time I took the diminutive tablets. Curiously, the tablets did not deaden the pain as they were supposed to do but actually increased my discomfort. I however, kept on taking the codein tablets one by one. The following afternoon I reported to Dr [Alvarez?] and showed him the record of the pills on the box lid. He threw up his hands in horrified incriduality with the statement, "It would be best for a girl like you not to begin to take drugs, (meaning opiates) smoking or drinking." inferring -
Iowa Women’s Lives: Letters and Diaries
sidebar
