Word: bladdered
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Milt passed away in 1989. We were married for 39 years. He was ill for two years with bladder cancer and then bowel cancer. He was originally given three months to live, and he just would not accept this. He wanted to live. At the very end, I called his pain specialist at Memorial Sloan-Kettering. She said, "I can't help him unless he comes into the hospital." Even after all these years I still cry when I think about it--he wanted life so much that he was willing to go back into the hospital. There just wasn...
Klaus Eckstein hopes that he will never have to go to Zurich. Four years ago the 70-year-old retired schoolteacher, who lives in Cambridge, England, was diagnosed with bladder cancer. The disease was successfully treated with chemotherapy and surgery, "but if it returns and can no longer be cured, I am determined to go to Switzerland," Eckstein says. "I don't want to suffer needlessly." Eckstein would not be traveling to Zurich to see its famous Bahnhofstrasse. He would be part of a small but growing number of non-Swiss known grimly as "death tourists," terminally ill people...
Joseph E. Barton ’64, a community advocate who mediated an ongoing battle between the Red Sox and residents of the Fenway neighborhood, died of bladder cancer a week ago Monday...
...drank heavily for decades and reportedly still likes a whiskey or two, Churchill-like, at age 77. He takes pain-killers for his knees and has trouble with his bladder, liver and one remaining kidney. He is said to take a three-hour snooze every afternoon. He is given to interminable silences and sudden bursts of poetry, and not infrequently falls asleep in meetings...
...drank heavily in his prime and still enjoys a nightly whiskey or two at 74. India's leader takes painkillers for his knees (which were replaced due to arthritis) and has trouble with his bladder, liver and his one remaining kidney. A taste for fried food and fatty sweets plays havoc with his cholesterol. He takes a three-hour snooze every afternoon on doctor's orders and is given to interminable silences, indecipherable ramblings and, not infrequently, falling asleep in meetings...