Word: painful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...operations are routinely performed more than 100,000 times a year in the U.S., and have kept countless people on their feet who might otherwise be left permanently crippled by arthritis and other ailments. But Mirando's surgery turned into a permanent nightmare. He was left in constant pain, with a right leg two inches shorter than his left and unable to walk without crutches. Now Mirando's private agony has become a public scandal as well, with possible repercussions for surgeons elsewhere...
...although she must walk with a cane-and plans to turn her columns into a book. Despite periodic bouts of gloom, her courage never flags. "I am coming put of a long siege of metastasis [spreading of the cancer] and subsequent treatment and I am tired and sometimes in pain," she wrote recently, "but I am not dying. I don't feel I am going to die for a while. When that happens, I'll share the decent parts of it with you." Hers is the kind of ungentle finale that Dylan Thomas would surely have applauded...
Researchers at the Medical School yesterday applauded Carter's authorization of research on the uses of illegal drugs in cancer treatment, including possible employment of heroin as a pain killer...
...another imaginative treatment has been introduced by Dr. Howard Kurland at Northwestern University (Quick Headache Relief Without Drugs; Morrow; $7.95). He applies strong pressure at four sets of points on the body (wrists, temples, hands and neck). The object of Kurland's "acupressure": to overload the nervous system's pain centers?in effect, jamming the signals from the headache. While Kurland's results have not been widely duplicated, his own patients insist that acupressure works...
...look at the shooting was over. For Herr came to realize that Viet Nam was the most intense experience life was ever likely to offer him. Hating the idea of becoming a combat freak, a reporter who needed a war somewhere in order to function, he also recognized the pain that he and fellow correspondents felt when their tours were up: "A few extreme cases felt that the experience there had been a glorious one, while most of us felt that it had been merely wonderful. I think that Viet Nam was what we had instead of happy childhoods...