Word: complaints
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Portnoy's Complaint, Roth...
...Portnoy's Complaint, Roth...
...isolation room at Ghent University Clinic, where for weeks he has been reading, watching TV and doing some wicker work. What is most striking, considering the radical nature of his operation, is that he has been able to get up and walk around his room. His most serious recent complaint has been stomach distress brought on by the heavy doses of drugs that he must take to suppress the immune mechanism by which his system might try to reject the graft. Derom ascribes the long survival of the graft to the unusually good match between the tissue and cell types...
...speak by swallowing air and expelling it while they vibrate their gullet muscles. In this esophageal or "burp" speech, the esophagus (gullet) substitutes for the windpipe. Although the Ghent surgery team headed by Professor Paul Kluyskens would say only that Borremans' larynx had to be removed, his complaint was almost certainly cancer. Knowing that many laryngectomy patients fail to learn esophageal speech, Kluyskens decided that a new larynx would offer Borremans a great advantage. If the transplant took, he should be able to speak almost normally, although in a monotone...
...background, though. "I'm not smart, but then you tell me who is. I shoulda gone to an Ivy League college, then I coulda lied like the rest of them jerks wearing the striped ties." He seems overly proud of his limited tastes in literature. "Portnoy's Complaint! I don't read nothin' that ain't written in English...