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Eve Drewelowe's journals, volumes II-III, 1950s

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whatsoever to do with the decision for I had not even been consulted. The doctors unbeknowingly to me had mapped out my program for me. One morning when I arrived at the Clinic for consultation and direction everything had been arranged. Everything was in readiness except getting my ticket for me.
The doctors knowing that I had relatives in general, and a sister who is a nurse specifically, Waverly- near Minneapolis had decided that i was to go then for a few weeks. it was suggested that I was to go to my sisters for bed rest after which I was again to return to Rochester & the Clinic for another going over. Indeed I was being packed off that very afternoon.
I took the afternoon bus to Minneapolis since that gave me the best connections in the shortest possible time to Waverly. it must have been between six and seven - as I recall - when I reached Waverly. Bob met me in her glope and transferred me to her home. Then I was off to bed on the usual much modified ambulatory with the usual medications - antacids, alkalies, sedatives - plus a new pink anti-spasmodic pill which I was trying out. Everytime I sat feet to the floor I was upbraided and then back into bed. Finally wishing at my sisters to avoid reproaches I meekly obeyed. For three weeks I stayed on my regiment of bedtime rest and began to mark some progress. however I did fall before the accustomed violent attack of July hay fever. The pollen that downs me then seems to thrive in the grain belt season, although it is by no means isolated to that regions during the harvest season. There was one swell attack that levelled me too in the Ukraine in Russia - a head on collission that sent me sprawling.

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whatsoever to do with the decision for I had not even been consulted. The doctors unbeknowingly to me had mapped out my program for me. One morning when I arrived at the Clinic for consultation and direction everything had been arranged. Everything was in readiness except getting my ticket for me. The doctors knowing that I had relatives in general, and a sister who is a nurse specifically, Waverly- near Minneapolis had decided that i was to go then for a few weeks. it was suggested that I was to go to my sisters for bed rest after which I was again to return to Rochester & the Clinic for another going over. Indeed I was being packed off that very afternoon. I took the afternoon bus to Minneapolis since that gave me the best connections in the shortest possible time to Waverly. it must have been between six and seven - as I recall - when I reached Waverly. Bob met me in her glope and transferred me to her home. Then I was off to bed on the usual much modified ambulatory with the usual medications - antacids, alkalies, sedatives - plus a new pink anti-spasmodic pill which I was trying out. Everytime I sat feet to the floor I was upbraided and then back into bed. Finally wishing at my sisters to avoid reproaches I meekly obeyed. For three weeks I stayed on my regiment of bedtime rest and began to mark some progress. however I did fall before the accustomed violent attack of July hay fever. The pollen that downs me then seems to thrive in the grain belt season, although it is by no means isolated to that regions during the harvest season. There was one swell attack that levelled me too in the Ukraine in Russia - a head on collission that sent me sprawling.