Word: problem
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...year by Peter Fraenkel, director of the PREP Couples Program at New York University's Child Study Center. Fraenkel noticed something curious: when four of the men showed an eagerness to share their feelings more extensively with their partner, the response was, in effect, "What is this guy's problem? He's so needy...
What men say, though, isn't the only problem--it's how they say it. When these guys finally open the emotional floodgates, the intensity of their expression can be jarring. Compared with women, who typically have explored the subtleties of their inner life from the cradle on, many men are inexperienced at this, express their feelings clumsily and sound to their wives like, well, like babies...
What is still puzzling is why Jesse's body reacted so violently. Was his an isolated case, or is there a problem with the way this virus was delivered--injected into the bloodstream? Is it a safe technique? Is the liver too sensitive? Should this particular kind of gene-therapy research be stopped altogether...
...that's where things stand now. It has been two months since the surgery. My doctors keep saying they're confident my eyes will improve with time--but they also say my experience is extremely unusual (one of them says he's never seen this problem in anyone else), so I'm not sure they know what will happen. A third doctor I consulted said there was nothing wrong surgically, and he too thinks my condition will get better...
...here's the worst part: my vision now can't be improved, except marginally, with glasses. The problem is on the surface of my eye, which isn't what lenses correct. One doctor likens it to scratches on the crystal of a watch. My eyes were always a little dry, but nobody seems to understand why they now need dramatically more moisture...