In 1910, owing to the lingering illness of my children, I...

Karoline Schroder

In 1910, owing to the lingering illness of my children, I suffered from shattered nerves, which claimed to affect my whole body. For two years I was ill with the severest pains in my head, back, stomach, kidneys, and joints, alternating with paralysis. Our family physician tried every possible kind of strengthening remedy and palliative. He also consulted the head physician of the hospital in this city, a gynecologist, as well as a physician for nervous complaints. But all in vain. Very often I would lie for hours as if dead. I heard all that was taking place around me and what was spoken; but I could neither move a limb nor make a sound, and I suffered terribly.

Our physician, visited me daily, did not know of any advice or comfort except that I might hope for a temporary improvement, but never a complete healing. For a few years I got on fairly well. I was having medical treatment all the time, and yet never a day passed on which I did not suffer pain. Such was my condition until 1918. Owing to the continual excitement and personal privations during the war I broke down once more. At last, when I had begun to improve, our old and honored family physician passed on.

Then I was at a loss to know what to do, and so I consulted a specialist for stomach troubles. He at first raised my hopes; but when after months of treatment there was no improvement and my faculty of thinking often failed me, so that at times I did not know where I lived or what I did, he told me that he could do nothing more for my stomach, as whatever he might try would be of no use; but he earnestly advised me to consult a specialist for nervous diseases again, for his knowledge of such complaints was not sufficient for my case. So I consulted a nerve specialist again. After a very long examination he too raised my hopes; but all that he advised me to do had been tried before in all those years of suffering, so that he too said, "Then there is nothing more to do."

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