Word: dyers
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...most people, Aug. 27 is a day just like any other. Tucked in between the carefree yawn of summer and the impending rigors of fall, it straddles a bittersweet block of the calendar, but to Karen Dyer, it is much more than that. Aug. 27, 1994, marked her arduous transition from typical teen to cancer patient. That was the day doctors removed what they thought was a benign cyst above her left hip. Then 15, Dyer learned that her life had changed forever. "It's funny," she says. "My main worry then was losing my hair, of looking different from...
...have sounded naive then, but Dyer was on the right track. Along with some 300,000 other young adults in the U.S., she belongs to the first wave of childhood-cancer survivors to benefit from several decades' worth of research in treating cancer in the young. Now a graduate student at the University of South Florida, Dyer, 28, unlike so many young cancer patients before her, has every expectation of reaching the ordinary milestones in life--graduation, first job, marriage--that most of us take for granted...
...their victory comes at a price, and science won't let them forget. With every new study of childhood-cancer survivors, evidence of the lingering health dangers from their treatments--heart disease, secondary cancers, cognitive deficits--continues to mount. "Some- times I feel like a walking time bomb," says Dyer...
Garcia said that he saw an open pocketknife in Fink’s hand and “made a concerted effort” to distance himself from Fink as he exited the building. Once outside, Garcia said, he and Dyer decided to call the police. Two police cars pulled up to the Science Center “literally within a minute,” Garcia said, and officers stormed through the front door...
...When Dyer and Garcia reentered the building about a minute later Garcia said that Fink was lying face down on the floor in handcuffs...