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Honolulu, March 14 1905
Dr. E. C. Waterhouse,
Dear Sir:-
Answering your questions regarding the spasm that Mrs. Stanford said threw her out of bed -- I can tell you of no other remark that she made in reference to that.
My reason for believing that her remark, as I stated, does not mean that the spasm threw her out of bed and down on the floor, is because I know how very difficult it would have been for Mrs. Stanford to have risen alone. She has for years avoided low chairs for the reason that she experiences great difficulty in getting up out of them. Avoided taking tub baths because as she often mentioned to me, that is was all she could manage to get in and out of them, and since the fashion of porcelain tubs came in she felt that she would not be albe to manage at all, because of insecure footing on the slippery porcelain.
On Tuesday afternoon, the day of our picnic, we arranged a seat for Mrs. Stanford by laying the two carriage seat cusions one on top of the other, against a tree. This seat was about a foot high, and when the time came for Mrs. Stanford to rise, it took the combined efforts of Miss Hunt and myself to get her up. But of course I should also say that it may have been harder for her to get up at that time than usual, for she sat there fully an hour in a very strong and rather chilly wind, and when she finally stood up had to remain standing for a little to get back her footing as she called it. Then we took a slow walk for about 15
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minutes for the purpose, as she remarked, of getting her blood into circulation before entering the carriage to drive back.
Knowing so well how hard it was for Mrs. Stanford to get up and down, I feel that she would surely have told me if she had been thrown down on the floor and been obliged to get up without assistance.
Bertha Berner.
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Honolulu, March 14, 19 05.
Dr. R. C. Waterhouse,
Dear Sir:-
Answering your questions regarding the spasm that Mrs. Stanford said threw her out of bed -- I can tell you of no other remark that she made in reference to that.
My reason for believing that her remark, as I stated, does not mean that the spasm threw her out of bed and down on the floor, is because I know how very difficult it would have been for Mrs. Stanford to have risen alone. She has for years avoided low chairs for the reason that she experienced great difficulty in getting up out of them. Avoided taking tub baths because as she often mentioned to me, that it was all she could manage to get in and out of them, and since the fashion of porcelain tubs came in she felt that she would not be able to manage at all, because of insecure footing on the slippery porcelain.
On Tuesday afternoon, the day of our picnic, we arranged a seat for Mrs. Stanford by laying the two carriage seat cushions one on top of the other, against a tree. This seat was about a foot high, and when the time came for Mrs. Stanford to rise, it took the combined efforts of Miss Hunt and myself to get her up. But of course I should also say that it may have been harder for her to get up at that time than usual, for she sat there fully an hour in a very strong and rather chilly wind, and when she finally stood up had to remain standing for a little to get back her footing as she called it. Then we took a slow walk for about 15
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minutes for the purpose, as she remarked, of getting her blood into circulation before entering the carriage to drive back.
Knowing so well how hard it was for Mrs. Stanford to get up and down, I feel that she would surely have told me if she had been thrown down on the floor and been obliged to get up without assistance.
Bertha Berner.
