Rosemary..
>>During her birth, the obstetrician who was supposed to be delivering her was running late. Not wanting to deliver the baby without a doctor present, the nurse reached up into Rose’s birth canal and held the baby in place.
The actions of the nurse would have lasting consequences for Rosemary Kennedy. The lack of oxygen delivered to her brain during her birth caused lasting damage to her brain, resulting in a mental deficiency.
Though she looked like the rest of the Kennedys, with bright eyes and dark hair, her parents knew she was different right away.
As a child, Rosemary was unable to keep up with her siblings, who would often play ball in the yard, or run around the neighborhood. Her lack of inclusion often caused “fits,” which were later discovered to be seizures or episodes relating to her mental illness.
In 1941, when she was 23 years old, Rosemary Kennedy received a lobotomy. Two holes were drilled in her skull, through which small metal spatulas were inserted. The spatulas were used to sever the link between the pre-frontal cortex and the rest of the brain. Though it is not known whether he did so on Rosemary, Dr. Freeman would often insert an icepick through the patient’s eye to sever the link as well as the spatula.
Throughout the entire procedure, Rosemary was awake, speaking with doctors and reciting poems to nurses. They knew the procedure was over when she stopped speaking.
Immediately after the procedure, the Kennedys realized that something was wrong.
https://allthatsinteresting.com/rosemary-kennedy-lobotomy
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Mr Frosty’s CAMPAIGN decided to make FUN of “Kennedy mental health” 2 WEEKS after his cousin’s death! I’d say JoeJoeJoe isn’t THINKING about running anymore-he plans to steamroll that jackass out of DC-hope someone gives Markey a MAP of Massachusetts so he doesn’t get lost, AGAIN
Mr Frosty—he used to run an ice cream stand many moons ago
>>a MAP of Massachusetts
He’s also known as D-Chevy Chase because he also has a home in MD and probably is down in the Beltway most of the time
I had never known that Rosemary Kennedy suffered a medically induced traumatic birth.
I had assumed that she was rebellious by nature and that this was enough for the Matriarch to have her lobotomized to spare the Kennedy clan further embarrasment.
She could have lived a close to normal life but her last sixty five years passed with her insensate & confined to a convent.
I wonder what the nuns thought of Mother Rose.