Word: painful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Despite his pain, Mister Sam remained indomitable. After weeks of back twinges, he was finally prevailed upon to consult White House Physician Janet Travell, who administered Novocain to comfort him. When the treatment was over, Rayburn arose to put his trousers back on. Dr. Travell noticed that he was wobbling first on one foot, then on the other. She suggested that he sit down to finish dressing. Cried Sam Rayburn: "I am 79 years old, and no woman is going to tell me how to put on my pants...
...Travell, who won her White House position by reason of her treatments for Back Patient Jack Kennedy, assured Mister Sam that his pain would disappear with heat packs and perhaps some rest back at his Texas ranch. But the House was not so sanguine; Rayburn's many friends were especially disturbed by the fact that he was recently unable to make an important floor speech on behalf of the Administration's foreign aid bill...
...case is described by Baylor University's Dr. Denton Cooley and colleagues in the A.M.A. Journal. A woman of 37 was sent home, apparently doing well, eleven days after a hysterectomy. Next morning, as she climbed out of the bathtub, she collapsed, gasping for breath and suffering intense pain in the chest. Back she went to Jefferson Davis Hospital, where doctors did everything possible to boost her blood pressure and reduce the risk of further clotting. She was failing fast, 40 hours after her embolism, when Surgeon Cooley recommended a daring operation to clean out the clots from...
...refusing to adopt a synthetic period style, or join any literary racket, has given my poems what would be called a 'handmade, individual craftsmanship quality.' " This is the sneer of a writer who feels that he has received less than his due, and the same poorly disguised pain is visible in his dedication of Collected Poems, To Calliope...
...left hand. The mental effort evidently worked through the nerve stumps and nearby muscles. After months of phantom writing, the electrician said that he had brought the phantom arm around in front of his body, and could raise it over his head. More tangibly, scar tissue that had been painfully contracted was stretched, so that an extensive grafting operation became unnecessary. Now virtually free of phantom pain, the patient has an artificial arm and is training to be a bookkeeper...