Word: lungfuls
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...awareness of her parents' age extended beyond annoyance at misunderstandings. She worried about her father's frequent illnesses and constant smoking. I learned that Dr. Fitzsimmons had narrowly escaped lung cancer a few years before. He still rolled his own cigarettes, even though he had barely one lung left...
...months. Finally, last August, just after the child's third birthday, her anxious parents took her to the University of Washington pulmonary clinic in Seattle. Chest X rays revealed that a thick, bluish mucus had started to accumulate in her airways. "She already had some permanent scarring to the lungs," recalls Dr. Bonnie Ramsey, Brianna's physician and an expert in lung disease. "She was a very sick little girl...
...those already suffering from CF these are exciting but still trying times. The promise of new discoveries is tempered by the knowledge that most patients past puberty have already suffered too much lung damage to be saved by even the most sophisticated therapies. Younger patients have a chance, but there are no guarantees. In Poulsbo, Wash., Brianna Oas' parents are philosophical. "We're fully aware that whatever they come up with may not be in time for our daughter," concedes Jim Oas, a naval-yard manager. Brianna has been in and out of the hospital in recent weeks...
...saying. I wouldn't presume to know him, butI would presume to know what its like to be up onstage behind a mike stand. He made this comment,"you guys, you're like worms out there, tenthousand worms out here" and I shouted out at thetop of my lung, "what do the fuck do you meanPerry? What the fuck are you talking about?"That's weird, though, `cause I knew exactly whathe was talking about. Anyway, that's sort of anobscure story...
...researcher was joined in his efforts by phytochemist Eloy Rodriguez of University of California, Irvine, who analyzed the chemical composition of the leaves. Rodriguez told the AASA that the oil found in one plant, a relative of the sunflower, has also been shown to be effective against breast, lung and colon cancer tumors...