Word: painful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...been replaced by bad blood and grudges. And so by the time he had finished his four minutes in the Rose Garden that afternoon, talking about his wrongdoing and his shame and Ben Franklin and the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam and the whole blue book of his family's pain and his God-given abilities, the power brokers in the Capitol who had been desperate for some help were slamming down their phones. "What was he thinking?" asked one. "He'd have been better off if he'd just got on the plane and left for his Middle East trip...
Then came the sinus infections, muscle pain, nausea, dizziness and fatigue--"a whole body weakness." Others complained of weakness too, though no one seemed to know the cause. Ambulances occasionally arrived to treat people for breathing problems, fainting, seizures, even strokes. Her children were the first to notice when the logic in her sentences began breaking down. By 1992 Polansky was bedridden and on workmen's comp...
Today 59-year-old Polansky is "better but still not 100%." She has used up her time on workmen's comp, which she was awarded for unrelated but disabling ergonomic pain. And she's been terminated by Southwest for failing to return to work within the 36 months allowed for medical leave. Along with half a dozen other employees who have spoken out about their health problems, Polansky is consumed by mounting medical bills, the cost of her lawsuits against the airline and the air-conditioning company that serviced the building, and by Southwest's countercharge that...
Blood simple! The FDA last week okayed Lasette, a portable laser device that enables diabetics to draw blood easily, with little or no pain. Many patients test their blood-glucose levels every day--in some cases 10 times--by pricking their skin with a razor-sharp steel lancet. By contrast Lasette sends a beam of light that vaporizes skin and creates a tiny hole so quickly--30 millionths of a second--it's barely felt. Cost...
...Janowski] was really pale, and she said she was having immense pains," says junior Laela Sturdy, who was Janowski's roommate that night at Stanford. "She wasn't passed out, but she was really not doing well. It was one of the scariest things, to see your teammate in that much pain and not know what's going...