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Eve Drewelowe's journals, volumes II-III, 1950s
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67. began a search for medical aid I do not remember of complaining about stomach-aches. My retention may be at fault, but I think not. However that may be, all too soon these two were inseparably and intimately united in my mind. For certainly there were no longer hives without distress; but there were interval disturbances without a manifestation of hives. When these stomach-aches really began, I do not seem to clearly recall. My room-mate at college testifies that as a student, I had an occasional distress. But she may be wrong for I retain no such memory. But now, however; by the time we were established in a new state, they had become too definite a part of my existence. So much so in fact that I can scarsely seem to know how life must have been without; I can hardly remember when there were none; and I can not imagine what a life apart from A STOMACH might be like except that it would be heavenly. Agreeably and acceptably so. But I am quite convinced that this early abdominal distress was caused by foods which did not agree. In my sensory visions I retain recollections of feelings akin to those produced by substances allergic to me now. These sensations
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67. began a search for medical aid I do not remember of complaining about stomach-aches. My retention may be at fault, but I think not. However that may be, all too soon these two were inseparably and intimately united in my mind. For certainly there were no longer hives without distress; but there were interval disturbances without a manifestation of hives. When these stomach-aches really began, I do not seem to clearly recall. My room-mate at college testifies that as a student, I had an occasional distress. But she may be wrong for I retain no such memory. But now, however; by the time we were established in a new state, they had become too definite a part of my existence. So much so in fact that I can scarsely seem to know how life must have been without; I can hardly remember when there were none; and I can not imagine what a life apart from A STOMACH might be like except that it would be heavenly. Agreeably and acceptably so. But I am quite convinced that this early abdominal distress was caused by foods which did not agree. In my sensory visions I retain recollections of feelings akin to those produced by substances allergic to me now. These sensations
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