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...with a lacrosse player's build, handsome, funny, gregarious and kind. He loved (and still does, so keep reading) sailing but also, unlike many of his ilk, loved but one wife and one set of great kids. He had smoked, and back pain brought him to the doctor. The chest x-ray showed the oh-my-God shadow, the scans showed it everywhere. The next move is usually hospice - this one is just about impossible to stop, especially when this advanced...
...After the first round of "cherry picking" - open-chest surgery cutting out the chunks of his lung that held tumors big enough to see and feel - he started an untested chemo regimen; he carried around a battery-powered pump on his belt that fed the nauseous chemicals into his veins around the clock. It was during this period that he came to my office, told me his story and asked if I could do anything about his limp. He had a painful knee. "You have all this going on and you want me to take out a torn cartilage...
...When my boss is here, there's a tension that permeates everything. Your breath catches in your chest and just sticks there for the entire day-no heartburn or reflux medicine can remove the feeling! The man never recognizes anyone for a job well done, yet he never yells at anyone for screwing up. He rarely ever cracks a smile or laughs, but he doesn't yell. It's almost like he's a robot, an automaton that lives to sit in his office and go over minute details of things people will never see or read...
...father's room, where he was reading the Koran," she claims, "and we heard shots." According to Eman, the Marines then entered the living room. "I couldn't see their faces very well-only their guns sticking into the doorway. I watched them shoot my grandfather, first in the chest and then in the head. Then they killed my granny." She claims the troops started firing toward the corner of the room where she and her younger brother Abdul Rahman, 8, were hiding; the other adults shielded the children from the bullets but died in the process. Eman says...
...Wahid says the Marines claimed the victims had been killed by shrapnel from the roadside bomb. "But it was obvious to us that there were no organs slashed by shrapnel," Wahid says. "The bullet wounds were very apparent. Most of the victims were shot in the chest and the head--from close range...