Word: numb
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...primary care, CareLink assigned Pat to Dr. Carolyn Eaton, an engaging woman who has been working with the system for about a year. What alarms her most about the new patients she has seen lately, Eaton says, is how long people wait - diabetics whose feet are numb, cancer patients already in the advanced stages of the disease - before they seek treatment. "When people fall on hard times, they're kind of embarrassed," Eaton says. "Their health care ends up becoming much more expensive." (Facebook users, comment on the story below...
...comeliest woman there.” I heard the horses neigh their assent as Ezekiel pulled up with the buggy.“Need I you remind you, sir, that someone in my position has no real duty.” His ruby face went numb pearl.“Being a dead soldier’s fiancé is no different than being a dead soldier’s wife.”“It’s different to me.”“Well not to me! You’ve been holed...
...number of writers in the media have noticed that people have become numb to the negative information around them. The focus of the individual has moved inward to his own economic survival. Attaching that to some reference point in the outside world becomes too painful when all of the news is alarming...
...boyfriend whose quality is usually in some important way the opposite of the relationship that ended. So your husband was one of these demanding, angry type guys, and you got used to walking on eggshells. And amazingly, the next guy is really laid back. Or you had a sexually numb marriage and you haven't been in any kind of state of erotic awakening for longer than you can remember, and somewhere in there, your trainer starts to look good. It's someone who presents the aspect of the relationship that was an unmet need...
...recalled a talk show in which girls had discussed cutting themselves as a release, a way to relieve depression. "I was so numb," she said. "I just wanted to feel something - anything." So she took a knife from the kitchen and cut deeply into her left...