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...Barbara Lane, 53, and suffering from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Haven House, a 20-bed residential hospice in North Atlanta, is living up to its name. ALS invariably kills, but the timing is hard to predict, which runs afoul of the hospice requirement that a patient certifiably have no more than six months to live. Coverage can be extended only if deterioration is continuous or if death is predictable within subsequent six-month periods. Doctors determined that they could not certify Lane, after she had spent a year in her original hospice, a third time, but Haven House executive director Metta...
More than 90% paralyzed and unable to speak by the time she came to Haven House, Lane controls her world by computer. The ALS Association of Georgia, with help from Lane's church, installed $2,000 worth of software in her omnipresent laptop. She can move her left shoulder enough to make her elbow control a mouse, allowing her to scroll through the alphabet--and communicate. Taped up on two walls of her room are one-page instructions to the staff that detail just how she is to be positioned at the computer and given drinks, including the angle...
...private nurse $150 a week for help beyond what the hospice staff can provide. Along with paying for a private nurse, Kita and her husband John, both city of Atlanta employees, spend about $300 a month on medications not covered by Medicare. Ultimately, respiratory failure kills ALS patients, and Lane has signed a do-not-resuscitate order, which will keep her off a ventilator. An ordained Baptist minister, she says she is "ready to do whatever God would have me do." --By Greg Fulton...
...Water national parks preserve the country as it would have appeared to early settlers in all its intimidating vastness; and even closer in, much of the harbor's 250 km of foreshore is blessedly protected, so that at North and Middle Heads, at Bradleys Head, in the valleys of Lane Cove, along the mangrove swamps of the river near Parramatta or in the upper reaches of Middle Harbour, you can fancy yourself back in the time before European settlement...
...teenage guerrilla boys and girls flirted - there was an actual carnival. A Ferris wheel spun at dangerous speed above a merry-go-round, while a long, glowing worm on wheels carried people around the town, blaring its police siren as it bumped past machete and saddle shops and a lane of candy-colored brothels...