- German Car Executive: What's going on here?
- Staff Member: Oh God. Roslinge Schees, an associate here, fell victim to this. Splat.
- German Car Executive: Ms. Schees is what?
- Staff Member: Fallen.
- German Car Executive: What did she say?
- German Car Executive: I did not understand you.
- German Car Executive: She says a woman who failed. And then she said... Splat! The door opened, but unfortunately no elevator. And she was gone.
- Staff Member: Splat.
- German Car Executive: Oh Splat, I did that while bursting. Yes.
- Kate Recklaw: He took some tests and told me I had a... a fibroid tumor in my uterus.
- William Lowell: This was at the nine tumor?
- Kate Recklaw: Yes, but he said that if it grew rapidly, there could be problems even a remote chance of cancer.
- William Lowell: And what course of treatment did he advise?
- Kate Recklaw: A total hysterectomy. Removing both the uterus and ovaries as well as the tumor.
- William Lowell: And after the surgery, this is when you became symptomatic?
- Kate Recklaw: He put me on a hormone therapy that made me sick. I was tired all the time and depressed.
- William Lowell: Did you tell Dr. Kyle about this?
- Kate Recklaw: Oh, yes. He implied that it was all in my head. He put me on antidepressants.
- William Lowell: Did it help?
- Kate Recklaw: No. Lethargy just got worse. I didn't go out. Some days, I wouldn't even get dressed. Wouldn't bother to eat. I was this zombie who sat around the house and cried all the time.
- William Lowell: So basically, you suffered from depression?
- Kate Recklaw: Not just that. I... I wasn't able to... feel things the way I used to. And not just emotions. Though that was part of it. But sexual feelings.
- William Lowell: What feelings did you lose?
- Kate Recklaw: I lost all sensitivity in my nipples. Nothing. And I can no longer achieve orgasm. I was... I was just dead inside. I wasn't me anymore.
- [Kate turned to her husband Ed]
- Kate Recklaw: I'm still not me.
- William Lowell: And for all this, you blame the doctor and the hospital?
- Kate Recklaw: Oh, yeah, I blame them. They didn't tell me what it would be like. What a hysterectomy could do to a woman? For God's sake, why didn't they tell me?
- [Kate was sobbing and was comfortable by her husband Ed Recklaw]