1)This could be used to create an educational drama on Rosemary Kennedy's life and the things she's endured such as a due to her father (Joseph), with her obviously being the main protagonist.
- forced prefrontal lobotomy - Didn't make any improvements - the left side of Rosie's body had been partially paralyzed. Her head titled, frozen near her left shoulder. The fingers of her left hand became gnarled and useless'. Leaving her lethargic, incontinent, she couldn't talk and relied on grunting, screaming and shrieking. She relearned walking, brushing her teeth, simple dressing.
The barbaric treatment did not erase her temper tantrums but she became worse and was assigned two guards in her living quarters.
- hid away in convents and sanitariums
Rosemary Kennedy(protagonist) , the eldest daughter of Joseph and Rose, had her life destroyed because of the fear and ignorance of her father. Joseph wanted her out of sight as his pushed his son toward the presidency, hiding her away in convents and sanitariums.
In November 1941, unbeknownst to his family, Joe took Rosemary to be examined by Dr. Walter Freeman, a neurologist and psychiatrist who was also a George Washington University professor, Freeman diagnosed Rosemary's condition as 'agitated depression', and suggested that a new neurosurgical procedure, a prefrontal lobotomy, would end the rages and 'render her happy and content'. Joe gave Freeman the okay to proceed that fall at George Washington University Hospital.
The radical experimental surgery on his 23-year-old daughter was based on a misdiagnosis of her mental faculties. It was the worst day of Rosemary's life.She was not mentally retarded as he was told by a ruthless and irresponsible doctor but learning disabled. Rosemary was packed off again to an institution, Craig House in Beacon, New York, a private psychiatric hospital an hour north of Manhattan. In 1949, on learning that Rosie was being sexually abused at Craig House, Joe had her moved to Saint Coletta, a home for the mentally retarded in southeastern Jefferson, Wisconsin
Rosemary spent more than 50 years living in a Wisconsin hospital cared for by a nun when she could have been treated with therapy. Rosie died on January 7, 2005 at the age of eighty-six. A Saint Coletta nun sat by Rosie's coffin. When asked by Rosie's siblings what was really wrong with Rosemary, was she really retarded, the nun responded, 'I believe she was like me. She had problems reading in school like I did. They called me a slow learner'.
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- Asking a girl out:
- Telling someone you like them:
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