L.A. Law (TV Series)

Good to the Last Drop (1991)

Linda Gehringer: Kate Recklaw

Quotes 

• 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]