The Autobiography of Ruth Tagg Caley

urning like a fire within me. I hope you will believe what I write, to be the truth. (Excuse allblunders I make as my writing is not so good any more.)In this day and age I have heard, some say there is no God. I know there is and He hearsand answers prayers. I Heard it said they wanted to take off the coins “In God we trust.”It was in the year of 1951 we lived in Orem Utah, my husband John had been in thehospital for about 3 mounts. I had to get me a job. I found one but, no transpiration. I got a ridein the mornings with a neighbor, but I had to find a way home in the evenings or call home formy boys to come and get me.Some Mondays, I walked as used to go to the doctor's office for a check up. Doctor saidmy blood was low and gave me some pills, but they did not help me. One evening after work Isat on a bench out side waiting for my ride home, I passed out and when I came too, I could seedouble. The same day, one of the women I worked with had said I looked pale, and up to thattime I noticed my clothes were hanging loosely on me. I had lost weight, so I decided I betterstay home for a few weeks and rest and my chest felt weak. I felt like a bone snapped, I heard it,so I asked John to call the doctor. He did but didn't think I needed him.By the time the doctor got there I collapsed and went limp. Doctor said I had totalexhaustion. I could feel in my chest a bubble or boiling like water, it was pneumonia. Thedoctor came several times to the house to see me and then called John at work and said I shouldhave to go to the hospital. A lady from our ward came with her daughter and rolled me up in ablanket, one took my head and the other my feet. They took me to American Fork new hospital.I was there 6 weeks. When at first they took me in, they had to feed me by sponge. I couldn'teven hold a glass to my lips. The doctor and his wife fed me and I slumped down, I couldn'teven talk. They had to prop me up. They ask John to come in early and feed me. He couldn'tget there any sooner as he had to first go home and feed the children. It was about 10 miles ormore.I don’t know how he was not well himself, as he had been in the hospital just before that.One evening he bought the children up to see me. I thought that Marjorie had flushed cheeks. Ifelt her forehead and asked John to get the doctor to give her a shot. Soon after that I got aterrible headache. It was like some one had thrown a baseball through my head. It left a holethat size in my fore head. I got a fever and chills and I could not stay in my room.My left arm, and side hurt, and my hand drooped down no power in it. I thought I had astroke or polio. My arm and hand looked like John's feet he had polio when a child. I wasgasping for breath and the lady in the next bed said what is the matter with your breathing? I toldher I didn't know, but I was sure ill. When her son came to see her that evening I ask him if hecould please administer to me, he was a return missionary. I had waited for John to come but thetime was almost over for visiting hours. John finally got there he was stuck in the snow drift andhad to dig out. The missionary had to do the administering alone and this is what he said.Ruth Tagg Caley pg 58