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...While attending Phillips Exeter Academy as a teenager, MacNeil was badly injured by a baseball. He fell into a coma for 10 days. When he emerged from the coma he wanted to go back to playing baseball. MacNeil's doctor told him that he would have to wear a helmet while batting...
While attending Phillips Exeter Academy as a teenager, MacNeil was badly injured by a baseball. He fell into a coma for 10 days. When he emerged from the coma he wanted to go back to playing baseball. MacNeil's doctor told him that he would have to wear a helmet while batting...
...that provides paid leave for primary caregivers. He was allotted just 10 days, at the end of which his wife was still hemorrhaging and too weak to care for the baby. He asked for more time, but claims that the personnel manager responded, "Unless your wife is in a coma or dead, you can't be primary care provider...
Enjolique Aytch of Atlanta was not fated to be a good student. When she was 10 months old, she suffered a seizure and fell into a coma for 24 hours. Doctors warned her mother Cheryl that Enjolique would probably be mentally disabled. Cheryl didn't buy that prognosis. She was convinced that both Enjolique and her older brother Richard were "naturally intelligent" and that all she had to do was offer the right stimulation. "Babies have such a thirst for knowledge! If you can capture their imagination right then, it seems to last forever, but if you let that window...
...Saturday, Hunter slipped into a coma. Dr. Tuttle upgraded him to highest-priority status and put out a call through the organ-transplant network for a liver. Labor Day weekend, normally a period offering a bumper crop of organs because of holiday traffic deaths, came and went without a prospect. TUESDAY 10:00 A.M. Todd remains in a coma, his liver shot, his skin yellow to his toes. Retribution is in the air midmorning when Brown reaches Trotter, demanding to know why Hunter is not at UNC. Their conversation is "spirited," according to Trotter, "emotionally charged," according...