Word: paines
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Suddenly she slipped and fell, landing squarely on her hip. She took a minute to rest, flinching in pain but attempting to smile as she moved behind the steering wheel. I took a long look at her before she dropped me off, and I briefly thought about returning home instead. But with the callous attitude typical of middle-schoolers, friends came before family, so I kept going. No kiss on the cheek, no thank...
...years earlier destroyed the cancer she was battling. They said, "She'll live to 100," and I believed them. But when Grandma went to have her hip examined the next day, the doctors only shook their heads. "She has a few months left," they said. "She's in tremendous pain--another tumor the size of a grapefruit. It didn't show up on the tests until...
...lasting intergenerational impact. Akiko, driven half-mad by the war, is haunted by the ghost of a woman from the camp and becomes a sought-after mystic after moving to America. But to call this a ghost story is to miss the point: Comfort Woman is really about pain, the kind that haunts and is handed down, like old, sad clothes. Writes Akiko: "I knew what it felt like to stretch open for many men ... about pain sharp enough to cut your body from your mind." Although Keller's prose, at a few points, has more ambition than lyricism, overall...
...kinder cut? Research shows that baby boys do feel pain during CIRCUMCISION, but it's easy to treat. A topical cream made of two types of anesthetic reduces the newborn's pain--as measured by crying, grimacing and rapid heart rate--without causing harmful side effects...
...reasons for having a child have always been selfish--from having an extra farmhand, to all my friends are having kids, to I'm bored with wine tours of Provence. The older the parents, the more serious the decision. What an older mother loses to lower back pain, she gains in serenity and perspective. Only the most determined women, like the Italian mother who gave birth at 62 after her only son was killed in a motorcycle accident, are going to undertake 2 a.m. feedings and toilet training in their seventh decade. There aren't going to be many such...