Word: painfulness
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...Dallas Cowboys' wide receiver Terrell Owens sure didn't look like a guy who had popped a bottle of pain pills, passed out and had his stomach pumped. At a press conference Wednesday at the team's Valley Ranch training camp, Owens admitted he was a bit vague about details of what happened Tuesday night at his downtown Dallas loft, but cut off talk about his mental state. "There was no suicide attempt," he said, a thin smile showing. "The rumor of me taking 35 pills is absurd...
...Owens, for his part, admits he doesn't remember too much of what happened. He was at his loft apartment around 5 p.m. Tuesday, took some pain pills - 2 or 3 is all he remembers - then had therapy. Last he remembers, he was on the table. He doesn't remember his therapist leaving. It's all "very vague," he says. Owens' longtime spokeswoman, Kim Etheredge, was concerned enough to call the paramedics. All she knew was that Owens' bottle of pain pills - reportedly generic vicodin - was empty; he says he had sorted out the pills and put the extra...
...past, although he says it's not true. At his daily press conference, Cowboys coach Bill Parcells stated that he had not talked to Owens. "I'm not sure I know the whole thing," the coach said. He was, however, adamant that the coaching staff was not involved in pain medication. Pressed for more information, he said, "When I find out what the hell is going on, you will know. Until then, I'm not getting interrogated for no reason...
...believed in the curing power of humor, especially slapstick. One of his favorite routines was mimicking awkward hospital volunteers who invariably said the wrong thing. When a leg amputee was convulsing in so much pain he couldn't talk, Jim handed him a chocolate shake and a three-by-five-inch index card with a scribbled message: "That will be $5. Bless you." But he mainly used treats to break the ice. After a couple of shakes, amputees were asking questions of the man who walked on two fake legs and worked for the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs...
...close enough. A rehabilitation specialist known by everyone simply as "Captain Katie," she was a razor-thin blonde who almost dissolved into tears when she visited her first patient on the ward, a teenage soldier who had lost a leg in Iraq. He was crying from the pain. His mother was hysterical. The 27-year-old therapist braced herself, realizing that she was supposed to be the one whom they had confidence in to help him get better...