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Most people prefer to stay away from hospitals, if possible. But Elsie loved operations. In April 1947, her abdomen already laced with post-operative scars, Elsie checked in at London's Croydon General Hospital giving a false name and complaining of mysterious pains. She said she had been vomiting blood. The doctors put her to bed for rest and observation; after two days she left without warning...
What makes the Elsies hard to spot is the fact that their pretended symptoms are generally rooted in some real lesion from the past. Two almost certain signs of the Munchausen syndrome: an abdomen full of scars and a handbag stuffed with hospital attendance records...
Stiff Eyeballs. Johnny's arms and legs were frozen solid. Her abdomen was stiff, her jaw locked tight. "Even her eyeballs," says Dr. Laufman, "were crystal hard. They were like two glass beads." Her temperature could not be taken at once, because regular clinical thermometers do not go low enough. After an hour and a half, a laboratory thermometer was found and used rectally. Her temperature then was 64.4° F.-far below the point generally considered fatal...
...Yard Dress. About 18 months ago a new doctor, A. G. Goude, came to Burnips and studied Mrs. Levandowski. By that time her roomiest dress, made of six yards of cloth, was getting too tight. Her abdomen hung to her swollen knees. Dr. Goude decided that her bad heart was caused by pressure of the cyst. If the cyst were removed by surgery, all might be well...
...Dallas' Downtown palaces I deprecate my red galluses, But if I swap 'em for a belt My abdomen gets calluses...