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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1514, 7 March 1901, Page 66

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ITHq Case of Mrs. A. TRUEMAN. t (bt a reporter). i TKe writer had an interview with Mrs. 'Annie Trueman, of Charlotte Avenue, Wellington, which is given below for the jperusal of those in search of information. I “I believe you have been a victim to ill* health for many years,” remarked the reporter. “ Unfortunately, your statement is true,” was Mrs. Trueman’s rejoinder. For fourteen years I did not know what it was to be well for a day. My complaint must have been working away at my system for a long time before it attacked me in full forces I first observed a great falling off in my. appetite. I used to make nice little dainty dishes in order to promote a feeling of hunger, but ono or two mouthfuls of food | were always enough to put in oheck any . further desire to eat. The pain afterwards was greater tiffin I could bear. My stomaoh felt as though revolving kaives were out-ting my inside away 1 , and miy shoulders had a sensation as though I was being repeatedly stabbed. Right down to the lower part of my. ribs, these murderous attacks of pain found.,their way,, whilst triy chest felt overburdened .withyyeight. Tlie food turned sour and.fermented, causing a large quantity of acrid gases to arise to my throat, when I was .kept constantly belching till all the wind was emitted. This trouble was not always so easily got over, for the wind very often remained inside, and caused my heart to palpitate to, a fearful decree, and the pain was so tremendous that I was sure my heart was diseased*. , There was a taste of gall in my mouth, which had an offensive influence upon everything I ate or drank. My tongue was furred, and often felt too large for my mouth.” “ Have you any idea what made your tongue feel swollen ? “ It always felt like that after vomiting, whioh I did nearly every morning. Retching continued long after my stomach was empty, and then I was overpowered and exhausted to such an extent that it was quite a oomnion thing for me to faint and fall to the ground. My housework was left untouched many a day, as I was so prostrated by terrible sick headaches that I had no heart to try and work. Attacks of .. diarrhoea, by costiveness, assisted inbringing down my physical strength—wlmfr little there was left of it. All day long I was in a dull, drowsy state, and I used to long for the night to come, so that I might fall asleep and thus acquire a little respite from my sufferings. But a few hours in bed made me long for the morning. There was no sle'ep for me. I lay hour after hour listening to the ticking of the clock, which reminded me that time was passing on, and yet I was getting worse. I used to wonder how much longer this state of misery would oontinue, and my mind, injured up all kinds of unpleasant thoughts in regard to the future. I tried to divert my attention from these unhappy reflections by reading, but in a few minutes my eyes ached and burned so much that I was obliged to put down ray book in despair. My limbs were always aching painfully. When I vyanted to stand up I had to rise very slowly, otherwise I was overcome by a dizzy feeling whibh made mo sit down again. My face was the picture of death, the cheeks being hollow ahd sunken, and my. lips were almost white. I became so despondent and irritable that the - conversation of visitors who came to sympathise .with me proved, a source of great annoyance. It was quite a usual tiling for days to pass without a particle ofriburishment passing my lips.” . “ You could not live very long like .that?” ; •■■■; ' ■■ . Everybody said the same, and many .friends havo. jsince told me that they expected to hear of my death any day. My bones were fleshlesa, and my legs were 'so devoid of strength that I could scarcely move them. Sometimes I thought I was going to choke, thr .ugh my throat being blocked up with;,winch I gasped for breath . ;; ’■ ■ ■ '