Word: pains
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...always, Nolen is refreshingly candid. He admits that he foolishly refused to take his first chest pains "seriously-though he had a history of high blood pressure, and his father died at 58 of heart disease. After an electrocardiogram finally confirmed that the pain was angina-a condition caused by an inadequate flow of blood to the heart muscles-an immediate concern, he allows, was whether he would be able to keep up an active sex life...
...recovery room four hours later, he found himself in a tangle of tubes and wires. Almost every bodily function was being monitored or controlled. To ensure adequate oxygen for his heart, he was hooked to a respirator. If he tried to move, he felt a sharp chest pain (from the break that was made in his breastbone to get at his heart). Later, as he listened to the beep-beeps of heart monitors echoing through the corridor, he nervously wondered whether any change in their steady rhythm was coming from his machine...
...signals were sent into the body by electrodes or other devices attached directly to the skin immediately above the tumors. The doses, lasting up to 30 minutes, never exceeded 25 watts-the power drawn by a small light bulb-per square inch. The lightly sedated patients generally felt no pain and did not suffer serious damage to skin or other tissue. Nonetheless, the radiation was strong enough to raise the temperature of the tumors ten to 20 degrees above the surrounding tissue...
...spirit until she hit upon the idea of reconstructing her Quaker heritage for her daughter. "Grace gave me southern Indiana," writes Jessamyn, recalling how day after day for a year and a half her mother told her stories about courtship and farming, blizzards and Quaker meetings. "There was no pain there for me. It was nothing I once possessed and had lost; it was not a future forbidden to me." And so she was slowly wooed back to life. Eventually, she even turned her mother's gift into her own response to extinction -her writing, which celebrates the Quaker...
...says Sam Zelman, whose ABC station in Washington has recently hired a respected ' network reporter, David Schoumacher, as anchor man. But the bad news is that some stations have replaced happy talk with unhappy talk, tabloid-style, producing a constant trafficking in emotions, like closeups of people in pain being lifted into ambulances. This nightly distorted accumulation of police-beat misfortunes makes any city look like a disaster area. Items are tailored to the attention threshold of the least patient viewer. That is what happens when entertainment values outweigh news judgment...