Word: adjuster
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...WEEK PAMELA BASU WORRIED about how well her 22-month-old daughter Sarina would adjust to her first day at school. Basu told her supervisor she might be late to work that day, but not to fret: she would just need a little extra time to comfort her daughter and ease the separation. When the day arrived, Basu secured her daughter in the car seat, climbed behind the wheel of her pale gold BMW and drove off, edging to a halt at a nearby stop sign. At that moment, the peaceful town of Savage, Maryland, lost the irony...
...everybody with an I.Q. over 70 can do things I can't do." Another problem: parents who have suffered through decades of caretaking have trouble letting go. "That can really slow things down," says Burnett. She and her team conduct therapy sessions with the patients' families to help them adjust...
Recovering patients must also cope with clozapine's side effects, which include drooling, drowsiness and possible seizures. Most adjust. But the risk of agranulocytosis is terrifying. Everybody at the center remembers a model patient who did so well on clozapine that she moved into her own apartment, got a job, found a boyfriend and bought a car. Then she lost it all, lapsing into homelessness and insanity, after she developed the dreaded blood-cell deficiency and had to be taken off the drug. Burnett remembers the woman begging to return to clozapine, insisting she'd "rather be dead" than endure...
When she arrived here, Griffin was forced to adjust to a program which stressed team performance over individual accomplishments...
...really wanted to help the freshmen adjust to this atmosphere," Connolly says. "Of course we wanted to win a lot of games, and we didn't do as well as we might have, but the freshmen got a year under their belts...