Oral History Interview with John Lowe, Jr., August 7, 1978 Page: 29
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Lowe:That's very correct, and I obeyed them (chuckle). Anyway,
I recall that the guy in the bunk next to me--during the
night--passed away. What ship he was off of, I don't know.
Another thing I recall during my stay in that hospital
was that my bowels wouldn't move for about ten days, and I
had a hard time, and they were reluctant to get me in a wheel-
chair. But they eventually got me into a wheelchair, and I
still had a lot of problems along that line,
Was this normal for a particular person in your situation?
Well, apparently not because they gave me every kind of a
laxative that the Navy had--black and white and everything.
And then--I forget the date--the doctor in charge of the
hospital and his staff comes along and checks each man's chart
in the ward there as to how long he's going to be there before
this man recuperates and can go back to action and what-have-
you. The ones that could recuperate rather shortly, they kept
them there; and the ones that couldn't, they said, "Ship them."
Well, I was one of the ones that was to be shipped. They
loaded me . . . during this time, I'm still flat on my back,
and they had already started marking off markers all across
my chest, because during this time fluid had collected all over
my chest, and I was really in bad shape.
Did you have much more pain at this time?
I had much more pain at that time. It was pleurisy pain, and I
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Marcello, Ronald E. & Lowe, John, Jr. Oral History Interview with John Lowe, Jr., August 7, 1978, text, August 7, 1978; Denton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1529186/m1/31/?q=%22%22~1&rotate=90: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Oral History Program.