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

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57. to my normal. These dizzy-spells must have due to an accumulation of fatigue and of over doing year by year from babyhood on. These were among the first signs - I think - that the machine was beginning to miss and should have been heeded. but after several days of rest I went back to my regular activities at the same quick-time pace, seemingly as good as new. And then we forgot all about anything out of the ordinary having occurred. Paying more attention to the warnings that all was not as it should be, and a periodically enforced rest might have prevented - I feel - much of the disturbance which has taken place from then on. For since that time foreward I have had a constant struggle with one thing or another until now, "I am A STOMACH" is all too true. Only once more in my life, however, has a similar experience happened. And that after a year of strenuous travel about the world. At that time we were in north Holland - Province Friesland - when I was again overcome with faintness and complete exhaustion. The basketry I learned while on vacation as a sophomore was used in my practice teaching - as a junior - at the Childrens' Hospital. One of the

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57. to my normal. These dizzy-spells must have due to an accumulation of fatigue and of over doing year by year from babyhood on. These were among the first signs - I think - that the machine was beginning to miss and should have been heeded. but after several days of rest I went back to my regular activities at the same quick-time pace, seemingly as good as new. And then we forgot all about anything out of the ordinary having occurred. Paying more attention to the warnings that all was not as it should be, and a periodically enforced rest might have prevented - I feel - much of the disturbance which has taken place from then on. For since that time foreward I have had a constant struggle with one thing or another until now, "I am A STOMACH" is all too true. Only once more in my life, however, has a similar experience happened. And that after a year of strenuous travel about the world. At that time we were in north Holland - Province Friesland - when I was again overcome with faintness and complete exhaustion. The basketry I learned while on vacation as a sophomore was used in my practice teaching - as a junior - at the Childrens' Hospital. One of the