I was an invalid for fourteen years, suffering with an acute form of indigestion, which seemed to baffle the skill of a number of physicians, besides several noted specialists.
Each one in turn gave up my case, telling me that I should have to consider myself a partial invalid for the rest of my life, and that I must not eat certain articles of food, otherwise they would not answer for the consequences. As these included most meats and nearly all the vegetables, I was reduced to skin and bone from lack of proper nourishment. I never knew what it was to have a good night's rest, and was in a dreadfully weak and nervous state and so irritable that I now wonder how my family put up with me.
My children made me so nervous that I could not bear to have them around me for any length of time, and would spend hours each day shut up in my room resting.
