Word: alarmers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...alarm rings at 7, and she reaches for the pillbox. It is the first act of her day. Her suffering, like the box itself, is divided into four spaces, each with its allotment of pink, white, brown and blue pills. "The pain is always there," she says; "there are just different levels of it. "First there is the "daily, hard, getting-around pain." This constant pain of rheumatoid arthritis has been with Maureen Hemmis, 37, since she was 18 years old. Then there is the variable pain: spots of acute, stabbing sensations that change location each day. Worst...
Pain is the body's alarm system. It alerts us to the fact that something is harming us. It compels us to seek help
...when we need it. It immobilizes us when we are injured so that healing can occur. Pain has an evolutionary importance, says Anatomist Allan Basbaum, of the University of California, San Francisco. "Not to have pain at all is a disaster." But when the pain alarm fails to shut off, it ceases to serve a useful function. "Uncontrolled pain," Basbaum notes, "is also a disaster." In fact, it can do serious harm. The acute pain that follows surgery can, for example, sometimes interfere with a patient's ability to breathe, as well as contribute to nausea...
...quickly contained two-alarm fire gutted the fifth floor of the Biological Laboratories early yesterday morning, but no hazardous chemical spills or fumes were released. Harvard health officials said...
This book is not an academic investigation of either Irish literature or the inspiration of landscape. It is a writer's journey, a tour of places which other writers have felt affection for also, or have known excitement or alarm...