Word: heartburn
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...restore the hiatus to its natural, former size and putting the stomach back in place. This worked well for most patients, at least for a few months, but after that as many as 25% had a recurrence of their acid reflux. So they were back where they started with "heartburn," which became especially severe while they were lying down, and it was likely to wake them in the middle of the night. Then they spent sleepless hours, propped up in pain...
Last June, still working as research director emeritus at the Cleveland Clinic, Dr. Page spent a full day working on project reports. That evening, he suddenly felt as if he had a fire in his chest, "much stronger than heartburn," he recalls. "The pain tends to disappear when you hold your breath hard and bear down. I knew I'd had a heart attack. In the four months since then, I've experienced first hand the problems that I'd been studying for years...
...gets him up at 6:30 every morning, sends him to bed exhausted at 11 every night. She has given him sunburn, windburn and heartburn, great anxiety, occasional despair, and the kind of gut satisfaction that makes it all worthwhile. Sometime within the next two weeks, unless every sailing expert has lost his bearings, the commodore of the New York Yacht Club will come alongside Intrepid and say to "Bus" Mosbacher: "Sir, I have the honor to inform you that Intrepid has been selected to defend the America's Cup against the Australians in a match starting Sept...
...crude a test device as the irritable stomach of a man with a hangover will sometimes show a distinction: two five-grain tablets of one brand, especially from a half-empty bottle that has been in the medicine chest for a cou ple of months, will promptly give him heartburn, whereas the same dose of another brand may have no such effect...
...promotion of happiness, were initiating new members into their jolly ranks. Alack, they had one joiner whose visage no vintage could sweeten: Oillionaire J. Paul Getty, 73. Beside him, U.S. Admiral Charles Griffin looked like Bacchus in his ceremonial garb. Poor Paul looked like Robin Hood with heartburn...