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until I had some cooperation. All this time despite the fact that they were so very casual and pretended complete indifference- I noticed- the physicians were scrutinizing my chart anxiously, and I myself was under close surveillance. Some ups and downs perhaps explained the withdrawal of the dismissals. If I had been told, however, that I might have to stay on, I shouldn't have minded and have adjusted myself much more easily, then I did to this trickery arrangement I had to contend with. During these six weeks at St Mary's, I had been having the usual food difficulties. I had been pushed up to second and third week and wavered between them to finish. Dr Rivers encouragingly made the statement that perhaps I might make fourth week by the Fourth of July. But as a matter of fact I had retrogressed to half and half (milk-cream) long before July. For all of a year and a half before this I had not been having orange juice because it was not agreeable. At St Mary's in due time it had to be added to the diet but the reaction was so marked and so decisive that prune juice was suggested to displace it. Hopefully in view of my departure and preparing for any exigency that might arise after I got home, I asked the dietitian - Helpful Hartman, the Great - to recommend a good brand of freshly pressed prune juice. I told her I never had seen anything but tinned dried prune juice on the shelves of groceries. Oh no! She had
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until I had some cooperation. All this time despite the fact that they were so very casual and pretended complete indifference- I noticed- the physicians were scrutinizing my chart anxiously, and I myself was under close surveillance. Some ups and downs perhaps explained the withdrawal of the dismissals. If I had been told, however, that I might have to stay on, I shouldn't have minded and have adjusted myself much more easily, then I did to this trickery arrangement I had to contend with. During these six weeks at St Mary's, I had been having the usual food difficulties. I had been pushed up to second and third week and wavered between them to finish. Dr Rivers encouragingly made the statement that perhaps I might make fourth week by the Fourth of July. But as a matter of fact I had retrogressed to half and half (milk-cream) long before July. For all of a year and a half before this I had not been having orange juice because it was not agreeable. At St Mary's in due time it had to be added to the diet but the reaction was so marked and so decisive that prune juice was suggested to displace it. Hopefully in view of my departure and preparing for any exigency that might arise after I got home, I asked the dietitian - Helpful Hartman, the Great - to recommend a good brand of freshly pressed prune juice. I told her I never had seen anything but tinned dried prune juice on the shelves of groceries. Oh no! She had
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