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...thought she was in a safe place. But as soon as the operation began, the Nashville, Tenn., HMO executive realized that the sedatives and pain-killers administered by her anesthesiologist hadn't quite taken hold. She could feel the surgeon make six "slicing, burning" laparoscopic incisions in her abdomen, but she was trapped by the paralytic drugs given along with the anesthesia, and she couldn't cry out or even open her eyes. "I was screaming in a black hole," she recalls. "I thought I would die on the table and nobody would know what happened...
...these days they may be able to simulate it. In studies of women with spinal cord injuries, the professors discovered an alternate pathway through which the sensation of an orgasm is sent to the brain. Through the vagus nerve, sensation can travel directly from the cervix, through the abdomen and chest cavity, into the neck and to the brain stem, bypassing the spinal column. That surprising discovery led to the isolation of a chemical called vasoactive intestinal peptide, which Professor Barry Komisaruk says is the neurotransmitter, or nervous system chemical messenger, in the body that causes the orgasm sensation...
...Other tips from UHS: try taking a warm shower (or bath) before going to sleep; try lying on the floor with your eyes closed, breathe deeply through your nose until your abdomen and chest fill with air and then let it out; go somewhere private and yell or stomp around to let off steam...
...January 9, Girl X was found raped, beaten and poisoned in the seventh-floor stairwell. She was unconscious and foaming at the mouth, her panties shoved down to her knees. Her T shirt had been used to strangle her, and gangster-style graffiti was scrawled on her abdomen in black ink. While the country focused on the case of another brutalized child--this one a privileged little beauty queen in Colorado--public outrage over the comatose Girl X was at first virtually...
Janowski thought health problems--like the previously undetected tumor in her abdomen that required immediate surgery last fall and kept her out much of last season--were a thing of the past when this year's squad faced Boston College in a season-opening exhibition contest...