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...STARTED AROUND Christmas 1979, when Sunny, heiress to the Columbia Gas and Electric fortune, fell into a coma. According to Schrallhammer's account, von Bulow ignored Sunny's poor condition for several hours until Schrallhammer convinced him to call a doctor. Some quick action by the doctor saved Sunny, and life went on as usual...
...year later, she lapsed into her final and irreversible coma. On Saturday night, December 20, 1980, Sunny ate an ice cream sundae for dessert and went to see a movie with the family. In talking to her son Alex von Auersperg after the movie, her voice faltered, and when she stood up to go to bed, she staggered. She told her son she hadn't been taking any drugs, and he carried his mother to bed. The next morning, von Bulow called him up to Sunny's bedroom, where Alex found his mother crumpled on the bathroom floor. Sunny...
...taken any action against the fasters, but Dean of Students Ronald L. Carter said that, "If [Abramowitz] thinks that his hunger strike is going to force us to change our position, I can only say that I will take him to the hospital when he falls into a coma...
...accident; several bones were broken, and the baby was lost. "She was a real tiger and a real fighter," John recalls, but her struggle to recover ended abruptly during surgery to remove the fetus. Oxygen was inadvertently cut off, causing irreversible brain damage. Nancy Jobes has been in a coma ever since, sustained by a feeding tube in a New Jersey nursing home. John, together with Nancy's parents and siblings, wants to have the feeding tube removed, but faces a battery of legal and medical obstacles. "There is no quality of life," he insists. "Nancy would not want...
...comet), the spacecraft's TV cameras shot some 500 pictures in about three hours. Transmitted across 109 million miles of space, each picture took nine minutes to arrive in Moscow, where it was colored by computer to emphasize differences in brightness. The first images showed only the coma, the great cloud of gas and dust surrounding the nucleus, as a fuzzy, violet-fringed, blue-green ball with a yellow center. But in images that Vega 1 shot when only 5,600 miles from Halley's, a dark red area with rather distinct boundaries appeared near the center of the image...