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Eve Drewelowe's journals, volumes II-III, 1950s
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seemed quite agreeable, when I suggested going home for two weeks or so to see my Mother, to have me do so. For int hat time I might be more ready and better able to make the trip back to Colorado. I have intimated time and time again that Dr Rivers is a very thorough individual, and very deliberate about having nothing undone to make sure patients are physically ready before they can be dismissed. You will remember I had not been feeling very well since the Mecholyl had rather felled me, and anyway noone ever was too sure of me at any time because my performance had never measured up to standard. Therefore I returned to St Mary's without a clinic dismissal but with plans to go to Waverly for a short visit and return whenever I felt better. My doctor had approved. The proposal however, that I had thought so fine didn't materialize. That same evening I called my sister Bobbi, and she told me Mother was still away visiting in Iowa. She had been away a good bit of the winter but was not expected back for sometime longer. We could never know when Mother would turn up when she was on one of her tours. Considering the circumstances, therefore, I gave up the Waverly trip- perhaps with a sigh of relief. It was the dead of winter. It would have been a strenuous trip; it always has been. If my Mother had been there I should have made the effort to see her regardless. If I had been well I should have gone in any case. The way things were however, I just couldn't muster the energy and I gave up my preconceived fine idea. I said nothing to Dr Snell for I never considered him my doctor. Nonetheless, I intended to get a dismissal
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seemed quite agreeable, when I suggested going home for two weeks or so to see my Mother, to have me do so. For int hat time I might be more ready and better able to make the trip back to Colorado. I have intimated time and time again that Dr Rivers is a very thorough individual, and very deliberate about having nothing undone to make sure patients are physically ready before they can be dismissed. You will remember I had not been feeling very well since the Mecholyl had rather felled me, and anyway noone ever was too sure of me at any time because my performance had never measured up to standard. Therefore I returned to St Mary's without a clinic dismissal but with plans to go to Waverly for a short visit and return whenever I felt better. My doctor had approved. The proposal however, that I had thought so fine didn't materialize. That same evening I called my sister Bobbi, and she told me Mother was still away visiting in Iowa. She had been away a good bit of the winter but was not expected back for sometime longer. We could never know when Mother would turn up when she was on one of her tours. Considering the circumstances, therefore, I gave up the Waverly trip- perhaps with a sigh of relief. It was the dead of winter. It would have been a strenuous trip; it always has been. If my Mother had been there I should have made the effort to see her regardless. If I had been well I should have gone in any case. The way things were however, I just couldn't muster the energy and I gave up my preconceived fine idea. I said nothing to Dr Snell for I never considered him my doctor. Nonetheless, I intended to get a dismissal
Iowa Women’s Lives: Letters and Diaries
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