TWA from Monday, May 15, 2017 “This Morning” by Mary Oliver from Felicity. © Penguin Press, 2016. ORIGINAL TEXT AND AUDIO - 2017 The American poet Emily Dickinson died in Amherst, Massachusetts, on this date in 1886 . She had been in ill health for about two and a half years, and was confined to her bed for the last seven months of her life. Medical historians now believe that she was suffering from severe high blood pressure — she complained of headaches and nausea, and near the end of her life she struggled to breathe, eventually lapsing into a coma. She would not allow her doctor, Otis Bigelow, to come to her bedside, but would only consent to walk past the doorway. "Now, what besides mumps could be diagnosed that way!" he is said to have exclaimed. He listed her cause of death as "Bright's disease," which was a catchall diagnosis that included kidney disease as well as hypertension. Besides her physical ailments, she suffered greatly from the deaths of several close friends over the last years of her life; the most traumatic appears to have been that of her eight-year-old nephew in 1883.
TWA from Monday, May 15, 2017
TWA from Monday, May 15, 2017
TWA from Monday, May 15, 2017
TWA from Monday, May 15, 2017 “This Morning” by Mary Oliver from Felicity. © Penguin Press, 2016. ORIGINAL TEXT AND AUDIO - 2017 The American poet Emily Dickinson died in Amherst, Massachusetts, on this date in 1886 . She had been in ill health for about two and a half years, and was confined to her bed for the last seven months of her life. Medical historians now believe that she was suffering from severe high blood pressure — she complained of headaches and nausea, and near the end of her life she struggled to breathe, eventually lapsing into a coma. She would not allow her doctor, Otis Bigelow, to come to her bedside, but would only consent to walk past the doorway. "Now, what besides mumps could be diagnosed that way!" he is said to have exclaimed. He listed her cause of death as "Bright's disease," which was a catchall diagnosis that included kidney disease as well as hypertension. Besides her physical ailments, she suffered greatly from the deaths of several close friends over the last years of her life; the most traumatic appears to have been that of her eight-year-old nephew in 1883.