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

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39. commonly accompanied by lips massed with fever blisters, but in a more severe condition, were sometimes followed by a rasping cough which was hard to overcome. The greatest picture of discomfiture projected into my mind from within the period of youth is that of feet painfully swollen and reddened by chilblains and the desperation these evoked. Annoying too, but less so, were the cold feet that have been a constant, life-long companion, intimately associated with these are remembrances of the middle-western winters - a returning with clammy extremities; and on arising, often nights of half sleepless  misery with feet completely numb from cold. I still retain, too sensations of maddening itching and scratching of insect bites and distracting hives; and of oft-repeated  regurgitation. Vomiting came easily, naturally and admittedly when anything was aesthetically offensive. In my makeup I have not only been too sensitive as to a stomach and a digestive tract, but have also been too acutely susceptible in general to outside conditions and too impressionable and alive to surrounding stimuli. Therefore, when pleasantly situated

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39. commonly accompanied by lips massed with fever blisters, but in a more severe condition, were sometimes followed by a rasping cough which was hard to overcome. The greatest picture of discomfiture projected into my mind from within the period of youth is that of feet painfully swollen and reddened by chilblains and the desperation these evoked. Annoying too, but less so, were the cold feet that have been a constant, life-long companion, intimately associated with these are remembrances of the middle-western winters - a returning with clammy extremities; and on arising, often nights of half sleepless misery with feet completely numb from cold. I still retain, too sensations of maddening itching and scratching of insect bites and distracting hives; and of oft-repeated regurgitation. Vomiting came easily, naturally and admittedly when anything was aesthetically offensive. In my makeup I have not only been too sensitive as to a stomach and a digestive tract, but have also been too acutely susceptible in general to outside conditions and too impressionable and alive to surrounding stimuli. Therefore, when pleasantly situated