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Mrs. Prasil terminated her employment with Heartland in January
1995.
When Mrs. Prasil commenced employment at Heartland, she had
been suffering from a clinical condition called “Sweet’s
syndrome”3 for a time period not disclosed by the record. The
record does not definitively reveal the extent of Mrs. Prasil’s
symptoms before, during, and after her employment with Heartland.
At trial, however, Mrs. Prasil testified as follows:
I got very ill. I had something called Sweet’s
syndrome. And things that would happen to me made me
much worse.
* * * * * * *
Because of my condition and what this man put me
through, my physical illness I had got a lot worse.
And I ended up being in the hospital and different
things because of it.
* * * * * * *
They thought I had leukemia, too. And that’s what was
causing the Sweet’s syndrome. They thought it was a
big rash everywhere. And fever. I was really ill. I
couldn’t walk on my legs and stuff.
Mr. Prasil further testified that Sweet’s syndrome attacks the
muscles and that Mrs. Prasil was “in the hospital for about a
little over a week” and that they incurred about “$8,000-9,000 in
hospital bills that she got from the abuse that she took from
3 Originally reported by Robert Sweet in 1964, “Sweet’s
syndrome” (a.k.a. acute febrile neutrophilic dermatosis) is a
rare skin disease characterized by fever and painful nodules
occurring on the extremities, face, and neck, and may have
accompanying myalgia, arthralgias, and arthritis.
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