Word: chest
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Lines like, "Take a big breath. See how your chest fills up? That's the sky inside of you" join with suggestions to hug trees and to walk around lamps to understand what it is like for the earth to orbit the sun. Lehrman's explainations of natural phenomena are elementary even for a young child. This book is innane and authoritarian...
Last November, at the age of 43, Carol Beebe lost her left breast to cancer. But when she awoke from mastectomy surgery at New York City's Columbia- Presbyterian Medical Center and gazed down at her chest, nothing appeared to be missing. Beebe, an IBM employee from Point Pleasant, N.J., had chosen to have a reconstruction of her breast immediately following the mastectomy. In a single operation, plastic surgeons shaped a new breast from Beebe's own abdominal tissue, moving it into place minutes after the general surgeons had removed the diseased breast. The technique spares the patient the anguish...
...majority of reconstructions are done with implants, small bags that are inserted under the muscle of the chest wall and filled with either silicone gel or saline solution. The inflation must be done gradually over a period of weeks to allow time for the muscle and skin to stretch, a process that can cause discomfort and sometimes lead to infections...
Silicone implants are not without drawbacks. Because they sit high on the chest and are compactly curved, the implants most closely reproduce the look of a young woman's breast and can be a poor match for an older patient. They can also make the breast feel hard, interfere with mammography and, on occasion, rupture, causing inflammation if silicone has been used. This spring, as a result of pressure from patient-advocacy groups and members of Congress, the FDA will require implant manufacturers to provide proof of the safety of their products. Still, many surgeons say the risks have been...
...would anyone want to call him that? Just because he wears #23 Just because his tongue dangles somewhere around his chest region during double-pump, 180-degree, Air Jordan slams like the one he pulled off against Harvard...