Gladys's Health?

**dstrattenfan** · 12-11-2008, 05:32 AM

I was just curious as to how she contracted the Hepitits...Now i have read in several books that she was a closet drinker, but then in other books it says she never more than drank a beer? I am sure the diet pills (if she did hide drinking) probably was a factor in her death...I still haven't read the book about her and E, but there is not much about her in most books I have read.

**presley31** · 12-11-2008, 08:23 AM

There is some information on here somewhere. I will try to post it when l find it.

**presley31** · 12-11-2008, 08:28 AM

http://www.tcb-world.com/showthread....=galdys&page=3

There is some information in this link. Hope this helps.

**dstrattenfan** · 12-11-2008, 12:20 PM

Well thanks I am glad SOMEONE answered...

**epmoodyblue** · 12-11-2008, 01:20 PM

yeah i would also love to know more about Gladys like tons of info on her..........we owe lots to her ..she gave us...brought elvis into this world..endless

to her......how i wish she had lived a long life

........mabye elvis would of lived abit longer if she was around

**epmoodyblue** · 12-11-2008, 01:21 PM

Originally Posted by presley31

http://www.tcb-world.com/showthread....=galdys&page=3

There is some information in this link. Hope this helps.

thank u 4 link

**presley31** · 12-11-2008, 03:43 PM

Originally Posted by epmoodyblue

yeah i would also love to know more about Gladys like tons of info on her..........we owe lots to her ..she gave us...brought elvis into this world..endless

to her......how i wish she had lived a long life

........mabye elvis would of lived abit longer if she was around

There is a book out there about galdys and elvis. but l haven't read it yet, but maybe that could explain more about elvis mom than what we read in books which is very little.

Book information.. http://www.elvis.com.au/presley/book...ndgladys.shtml

MissyM · 12-11-2008, 04:07 PM

Gladys was a very sweet, sensitive women. I know of no one who talks of her that didn't adore her. But my MIL said she did drink, the pills not so much. She and Vernon stayed togeather through thick and thin but it was not a good relationship. Elvis was her life. I do feel that part of it came out of the fact that Vernon was not a good husband. He didn't like to work and he was a ladies man. This was a women who devoted her life to one child and she was slowly losing him to the world and then he went off to the Army. This was devasting to her. She slipped in and out of deep depression. Her whole world was changing remember. Her main source of happiness was slipping away. She was the happiest when she was doing household things, and being around her son, and caring for him.
Her world was turned inside out. I just think the years of drinking, depression, and worry caught up to her physically. Weather her drinking was the cause of the hepatitis, I don't know. I don't know what kind of hepatitis she had.

**TotallyInsane** · 12-11-2008, 05:46 PM

Wasn't it Hepatits C?

**epmoodyblue** · 12-11-2008, 05:55 PM

Originally Posted by MissyM

Gladys was a very sweet, sensitive women. I know of no one who talks of her that didn't adore her. But my MIL said she did drink, the pills not so much. She and Vernon stayed togeather through thick and thin but it was not a good relationship. Elvis was her life. I do feel that part of it came out of the fact that Vernon was not a good husband. He didn't like to work and he was a ladies man. This was a women who devoted her life to one child and she was slowly losing him to the world and then he went off to the Army. This was devasting to her. She slipped in and out of deep depression. Her whole world was changing remember. Her main source of happiness was slipping away. She was the happiest when she was doing household things, and being around her son, and caring for him.
Her world was turned inside out. I just think the years of drinking, depression, and worry caught up to her physically. Weather her drinking was the cause of the hepatitis, I don't know. I don't know what kind of hepatitis she had.

and when she passed away.... it was a devasting blow to elvis.....i think he never recovered from it... after his mom passed away..well there all together once again elvis Vernon gladys united forever....somewhere in that mansion in the sky

**john carpenter** · 12-11-2008, 06:17 PM

Originally Posted by epmoodyblue

and when she passed away.... it was a devasting blow to elvis.....i think he never recovered from it... after his mom passed away..well there all together once again elvis Vernon gladys united forever....somewhere in that mansion in the sky

I agree with everything yo said. Also IMO Gladys wasn,t an achololic, but pills & booze doesn,t mix (take my word for it) Plus she had hepatitis (spell check) I know she suffered from separation anxiety. And it was her time to go!

**presley31** · 12-11-2008, 07:12 PM

Originally Posted by epmoodyblue

and when she passed away.... it was a devasting blow to elvis.....i think he never recovered from it... after his mom passed away..well there all together once again elvis Vernon gladys united forever....somewhere in that mansion in the sky

Great post and l agree too.

**Elton** · 12-12-2008, 12:38 AM

Originally Posted by presley31

There is a book out there about galdys and elvis. but l haven't read it yet, but maybe that could explain more about elvis mom than what we read in books which is very little.

Book information.. http://www.elvis.com.au/presley/book...ndgladys.shtml

A very good suggestion as well as a very good read!
You will enjoy this one.

**dstrattenfan** · 12-12-2008, 05:34 AM

Originally Posted by MissyM

Gladys was a very sweet, sensitive women. I know of no one who talks of her that didn't adore her. But my MIL said she did drink, the pills not so much. She and Vernon stayed togeather through thick and thin but it was not a good relationship. Elvis was her life. I do feel that part of it came out of the fact that Vernon was not a good husband. He didn't like to work and he was a ladies man. This was a women who devoted her life to one child and she was slowly losing him to the world and then he went off to the Army. This was devasting to her. She slipped in and out of deep depression. Her whole world was changing remember. Her main source of happiness was slipping away. She was the happiest when she was doing household things, and being around her son, and caring for him.
Her world was turned inside out. I just think the years of drinking, depression, and worry caught up to her physically. Weather her drinking was the cause of the hepatitis, I don't know. I don't know what kind of hepatitis she had.

Ur post as usual was informative and well opinionated! I was thinking about what u said about Vernon being a ladies man, and it made me think maybe that is where Elvis learned it...

Like President Kennedy's (who I am absolutely in love with) father Joe, he actually taught President Kenny too be a womanizer! Not that Vernon thought E that but maybe in a way that is where he learned it?

Did ur MIL say if Vernon was like that while he and Gladys were married? In books I have only heard that he started this activity after she died..But that might explain some of the underlying tensions between Elvis and Vernon

MissyM · 12-12-2008, 05:45 AM

Let's clarify something about the hepatitis thing. She may have has it. But weather it was hep. c is another thing. Hep. C will lead to cirrosis of the liver but it's cause is not alcoholism. You get it through the exchange of body fluids. That is also true of Hep. b. Hep. A is transmitted through contaminated food, utensils, and water. There is a possibility that she had cirrorsis of the liver. (or even hepatitis) but the diagnonsis might get confused because any liver disease will manifest itself in it's symtoms. Jaundice, extreme fatigue. Now, I have no idea who first said it was hepatitis. If an autopsy wasn't done then no one would know for sure. But since there are so many causes of cirrosis and the fact that it could be a combination of things, who knows. Normally cirrosis was put down as the cause of death, with sometime a primary cause with it, if it was known. Even back then, alcoholism was not normally put down as a primary cause. It is now.

MissyM · 12-12-2008, 05:54 AM

Originally Posted by dstrattenfan

Ur post as usual was informative and well opinionated! I was thinking about what u said about Vernon being a ladies man, and it made me think maybe that is where Elvis learned it...

Like President Kennedy's (who I am absolutely in love with) father Joe, he actually taught President Kenny too be a womanizer! Not that Vernon thought E that but maybe in a way that is where he learned it?

Did ur MIL say if Vernon was like that while he and Gladys were married? In books I have only heard that he started this activity after she died..But that might explain some of the underlying tensions between Elvis and Vernon

Yet MIL said he was always like that. It is one reason she didn't care much for him. She adored Gladys. My MIL just could not stand a man "steppin out" on his wife. But Gladys put up with it and made the best of things because she loved him and it was so common in the men back then. Remember divorce was very frowned on in that family. It was a different world back then. Now I'm not sure Elvis got the trait from his dad or not, but certain ways you are raised will impact a person. If so many of the people you have close in your life cheat and stay together, I would think that you would be more apt to feel if you do it, your women will stay. But times were changing (in Elvis adult time) and that was not so. It truely was a double standard back then. (in Vernon and Gladys generation (Men cheated but God forbid their wives did. Just the way it was.

**riley** · 12-12-2008, 06:05 AM

some suggest Gladys was a pretty wild lady too in her younger days. I even read that Elvis once mentionned he was not sure that Vernon was his father or rather uncle Vester. Is that just mean gossip or is there also truth about it Missy M ?

I also read somewhere that Elvis said that Vernon knew exactly when he was made because he passed out after the love making, because it was supposed to have been sooooo passionate.......

**dstrattenfan** · 12-12-2008, 06:15 AM

[QUOTE=riley;268724]some suggest Gladys was a pretty wild lady too in her younger days. I even read that Elvis once mentionned he was not sure that Vernon was his father or rather uncle Vester. [QUOTE]

That is so funny..... I doubt that Vester was his dad

MissyM · 12-12-2008, 06:21 AM

That to me it's got to be gossip and rumor. Gladys had a love of life and liked to dance and have a good time, but I never heard anyone say she was "wild". Besides Vernon wouldn't have let her out much or given her the opportunity to stray.
As for Elvis saying that..I can't imagine that. He had respect for his mother and those type of things just weren't talked about. Good heaven, my MIL couldn't even say the word sexx when I first got to know her.

**dstrattenfan** · 12-12-2008, 06:38 AM

Originally Posted by MissyM

That to me it's got to be gossip and rumor. Gladys had a love of life and liked to dance and have a good time, but I never heard anyone say she was "wild". Besides Vernon wouldn't have let her out much or given her the opportunity to stray.
As for Elvis saying that..I can't imagine that. He had respect for his mother and those type of things just weren't talked about. Good heaven, my MIL couldn't even say the word sexx when I first got to know her.

I think that E probably would have punched anyone in the mouth that said such a thing about his mother.....

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