Word: liverance
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...camp, later to be killed by a falling tree. Tietou's uncle is going blind, and Uncle's girlfriend, star of an army theater troupe, is sent to jail because she refuses an order to have sex with political leaders. Shujuan's second husband (Li Xuejian) dies from a liver ailment aggravated by the rampant malnutrition of the early '60s. And during the spiteful frenzy of the Cultural Revolution, Shujuan's third husband (Guo Baochang) is humiliated and beaten by the righteous Red Guard. What is worse than young American rebels without a cause? Young Chinese cadres with...
...thier lives possess a wisdom and maturity beyond their years. Benito Agrelo, 15, possesses both -- and plenty of spunk to boot. When social workers arrived with five police cars and two ambulances at his Coral Springs, Florida, home, they planned to force the boy, who is dying of liver failure, to go to the hospital. But Benny, who has already undergone two liver transplants, told them he wanted to be left alone to live out whatever remained of his life in peace. The 5-ft. 2-in. teenager, who weighs just 79 lbs., kicked and screamed and even managed...
...antirejection drugs he is taking so the side effects are not quite so miserable. There is also the possibility of yet another transplant. The chances he could survive a year after a third operation, however, are generally considered to be less than 50%. "We proposed trying to rescue his liver," says Dr. Andreas Tzakis, head of liver transplantation at the University of Miami. "He refused." One thing is sure: as Benny loses weight, and his skin turns ever deeper shades of yellow, his chances dim with each passing...
...chronically disabled Potter, life was a death sentence; but he would have the last word. So this spring, two months before he succumbed at 59 to cancer of the pancreas and liver, he staged his own funeral oration on Britain's Channel 4 program Without Walls. In the 70-minute conversation with host Melvyn Bragg, the dying man displayed a new, calm bravery. At one point he paused, knee-high in the stream of his eloquence, to ask if he might take a sip of liquid morphine to ease his pain. Bragg wondered if they should stop; Potter replied...
...recently as last month she told a friend that things were going well: "I'm almost glad it happened because it's given me a second life. I laugh and enjoy things so much more." However, the cancer had spread to her brain and her liver from her lymph nodes. On Wednesday, after deciding that further medical treatment would be fruitless, she went home. She died the evening after. This week she is to be buried in Arlington National Cemetery beside her husband and her son Patrick...