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When Fannie Smith, 82, was found to have lung cancer two years ago, her son Ray had nightmarish visions of commuting weekly between his home in Denver and his mother's place in Linden, N.J. "Mom wasn't going to move, and she didn't want to go to a nursing home," the 59-year-old financial adviser recalls. But all kinds of problems, from fixing the hot-water heater to lining up 24-hour health care for her, suddenly became his responsibility. "How do you handle all that from 1,800 miles away?" he wondered. "You just...
DIED. MORTON DOWNEY JR., 67, raucous, chain-smoking host of the eponymous 1987-89 TV talk show; of lung cancer; in Los Angeles. In the 1970s, Pope Paul VI knighted Downey for humanitarian work with war victims in Nigeria. But he is most remembered as the in-your-face host who bellowed and blew smoke at guests he didn't like...
...Five days earlier Gibson had taken an 11-hour trip back to Britain from a holiday in New Orleans. Based on this information, hospital staff quickly diagnosed a pulmonary embolism, a potentially fatal lung complication of deep vein thrombosis (DVT) - blood clots in the veins - a condition that is often prompted by prolonged periods of immobility. Some experts believe DVT can affect as many as one in 20 aircraft passengers. Gibson stayed in the hospital for five days receiving anticoagulants. It didn't put her off flying altogether, but it did make her aware of some of the unexpected hazards...
...little lump of a clot behind one of the valves.? Although the clots themselves are not life-threatening, the complications can be. The most serious is a pulmonary embolism?which occurs in 25-30% of DVT cases?when a piece of the clot breaks off and travels to the lung. In rare instances, part of a clot may lodge in other organs, including the brain, where it can trigger a stroke...
...Five days earlier Gibson had taken an 11-hour trip back to Britain from a holiday in New Orleans. Based on this information, hospital staff quickly diagnosed a pulmonary embolism, a potentially fatal lung complication of deep vein thrombosis (DVT) - blood clots in the veins - a condition that is often prompted by prolonged periods of immobility. Some experts believe DVT can affect as many as one in 20 aircraft passengers. Gibson stayed in the hospital for five days receiving anticoagulants. It didn't put her off flying altogether, but it did make her aware of some of the unexpected hazards...