I am sending you my experiences as near as I can. I was married at
twenty-one years. I am now forty-five. I have had no children this last
eight years. I can safely say I am suffering now for my ignorance in my
young days, during pregnancy and confinement. It was after my second
baby was born; I was living a piece away from my mother. I could not
afford to pay someone to look after the house and me, and pay a midwife
too, so my mother came and did what she could for me in the morning,
and then left me till my husband came from work. Of course, I got up
sooner than I should have done. It was in January, and snow was about.
I went in the back place, and started to put things right, when I had a
cold shake, and I was put to bed. It stopped all the courses, and I was
many weeks before I was right. Since then I have suffered with varicose
veins in my legs before and after confinement.
I have been in bed four and five weeks, the longest nine weeks, with
my legs, after baby was born. At the present time of writing I am in
bed now, and have been nearly three weeks with the same thing. Now the
change has come. It is three years since I had an attack.