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Eve Drewelowe's journals, volumes II-III, 1950s
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75. There was an assistant on the case who was above mediocrity, but he was a physician not a surgeon. His specialty was playing delivery boy to the stock. However, I feel, that had it not been for him and his stabilizing influence I might even then have fared much worse than I did. From the standpoint of removing the source of "localized" pain - the primary purpose really for submitting to the operation - it was entirely unsuccessful. Like the Treaty of Versailles, it settled nothing. There were intervals of complete dormancy; and some approaching quiescence; but other periods harboured continuous distress, nausea and regurgitation. For several days at a time nothing could be kept on the stomach. Sometimes too I was distress free for months at a time - three, four or even six or seven. A year following the appendectomy, I was still noticeably ailing. Too much abdominal discomfort; hay fever; too many colds and too much sore throat were devitalizing. Finally a septic sore throat disclosed the true condition of the tonsils. The examination showed a bad infection from a long standing and much pus. It was inevitable that these be removed. And this time we procured the services of our good friend and a master-specialist. At once I was in skilled hands. The tonsillectomy was done on a local anesthetic but because of the presence of much scar tissue the anesthetic didn't take very well and the
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75. There was an assistant on the case who was above mediocrity, but he was a physician not a surgeon. His specialty was playing delivery boy to the stock. However, I feel, that had it not been for him and his stabilizing influence I might even then have fared much worse than I did. From the standpoint of removing the source of "localized" pain - the primary purpose really for submitting to the operation - it was entirely unsuccessful. Like the Treaty of Versailles, it settled nothing. There were intervals of complete dormancy; and some approaching quiescence; but other periods harboured continuous distress, nausea and regurgitation. For several days at a time nothing could be kept on the stomach. Sometimes too I was distress free for months at a time - three, four or even six or seven. A year following the appendectomy, I was still noticeably ailing. Too much abdominal discomfort; hay fever; too many colds and too much sore throat were devitalizing. Finally a septic sore throat disclosed the true condition of the tonsils. The examination showed a bad infection from a long standing and much pus. It was inevitable that these be removed. And this time we procured the services of our good friend and a master-specialist. At once I was in skilled hands. The tonsillectomy was done on a local anesthetic but because of the presence of much scar tissue the anesthetic didn't take very well and the
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