Word: burcham
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...Jack Burcham survived for only ten days with his implant last April, but, says his wife Jinx, the experience seemed "a long, long terrible nightmare." Margaret Schroeder, enduring the longest bedside vigil of all, has spent months at a time in Louisville, 100 miles from her home. Last September she became so exhausted that she was hospitalized. She rarely gives interviews but told Annas that "she felt she was a prisoner of the artificial heart." Concern about their mother has added to the stress on the six Schroeder children. "The only thing worse than having one parent in the hospital...