Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1915-06-16
AGE WEAKNESSES CREEP ON
Old Soldier and Citizen Communi-
Gates With His Friends


EDITOR CENSOR: With your consent
! shall be pleased to answer through
the CENSOR the inquiries of numerous
former neighbors and friends who in q
postal shower have recently inquired
about our unusual geige of sickness
! am not yet able to write to each
one separately. and it would be a big
JOB II | were able, and most of them
will get the information if published in
the CENSOR. Many of them know had
an exceedingly painful sickness last
July, IN which believe had the only
conscious death-bed experience that is
or VIII be allotted to me, as the con-
slant condition Of my heart strongly in
dlcates sudden or unconscious death,
OF which was admonished by my fam
lily doctor over forty years ago. In my
present sickness of about eight or ten
weeks, have not had any sevsre pain
but only distressing feeling of weak
ness, that prompts me to desire TO go to
sleep and not wake up again, or at least
not before the great time when ''they
that are in their graves shall hear His
voice and come forth" Part of the
time my right side has been so para
lyzed that have been very miserable;
my mind so affected / have been lost
and unable to pass from one room to
another readily; start to go and forget
which room | started for, and then af-
ter another trial get there but forget
what l came for; and sometimes 20
back to the room | had started from
before could think what | went for.
do not remember of ever having had
such experiences before. My right hand
and arm we're numb two days before
discovered that my right leg and whole
right side were almost unmanagable.
had entered the bath room and turned
the key as usual, locking others out,
then fell; while falling the thought
came: What will be done If become
unable to unlock the door," / do not
know what time of day that occurred,
but it seemed to me perfectly dark.
felt around till found the key and to
make sure had unlocked it | opened
the door little. On retiring from the
room | took the key and deposited it in
the bureau drawer, where it remained
till this morning. | realize that my
mind is not nearly as active as it usual
ly has been in all my mature years be-
fore this. have not been able to make
any garden this year till yesterday,
when hoed the sugar beets my old
friend Mr.. Johnson sowed for me, and
| set some tomato plants from my fifth
sowing of seed. Being a special lover
Of fresh garden produce my garden has
been one of my chief anxieties during
my sickness.
When realized that paralysis and
utter helplessness were about to be my
lot l anxiously inquired of DR.. Suttle,
my longtime family physician, with
reference to cure, also of DIR. W. M.
Trowbridge, whom | had called in on
two days when DIR. Suttle was away on
his farm. Neither Of them gave me
any encouragement to expect much re-
lief. The next day DR.. Mead came to
pay house rent. then asked him what
his system (0steopathy) would do for
the relief of paralysis and he answered
Il do not say chat can cure it, but
can do more for it than can be done
with medicine. | Immediately said
take this money back, | will take the
rent in treatments. That was May IL,
took treatment that day, and one
each day for few days, then one each
two days till had taken twelve. AT
this writing easily ehore around two
or three hours day. My apretite and
general health;are much better.
Mrs. Hyde issa little more feeble thar
usual, gradually failing, resulting,
think. more from depending on stimu-
Tents for relief than any other course,
besides her age which is much against
her, having passed her 10th anniversa.
ry last March. Since January 28,
have been in my 80th year.
Yours, E. B. HYDE.
Viroqua, June 5, 1915.