Word: kidney
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...Beethoven's turn, thanks to two Arizona music lovers. They bought a lock of hair at an auction in 1994, and have offered it for scientific analysis. So far, researchers have learned that the composer didn't have lice and didn't take morphine for his kidney stones or his cirrhosis of the liver. They're still looking for traces of mercury and lead, either of which could have caused his famous deafness; the former would be an especially juicy find, since mercury in those days was used to treat syphilis, which some scholars think Beethoven may have had. They...
...most difficult trial of the last nine months has been the problems Epps has had with his health. In September, he underwent heart surgery and, in January, he received a kidney transplant. "As I think back on it, I don't quite know how [the family] managed it," says Epps...
DIED. ERMA BOMBECK, 69, humorist; following a kidney transplant; in San Francisco. The titles of her books spoke volumes about her view of motherhood, housewifery and life: I Lost Everything in the Post-Natal Depression; The Grass Is Always Greener over the Septic Tank. Starting at $3 a column in 1964, she composed ruefully real depictions of domestic America that found a national audience among women who saw little of themselves in June Cleaver. Bombeck eventually appeared in 600 papers, but still lived the unpretentious life she wrote of, laughing through travail...
...FRANCISCO: A housewife turned syndicated columnist whose self-deprecating humor will be fondly remembered, Erma Bombeck died today at 69 from complications following a kidney transplant at a hospital in San Francisco. Bombeck began writing her column in 1965 and three years later it was nationally syndicated, appearing twice a week in over 700 newspapers. She was a correspondent on ABC's "Good Morning America" for 11 years and starred in the brief sitcom "Maggie" which lasted for only eight episodes. Bombeck was also the author of several books including "The Grass Is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank...
...recalls Patty. And so it has been. Aside from an operation at four months to remove a third arm that projected awkwardly between their heads, the girls have not needed surgery. They have been hospitalized briefly three times: twice for pneumonia in Britty's lung and once for a kidney infection...