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...Patients like Willie face a terrible fate. Relentless and always fatal, MND kills motor neurones, the nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord that activate muscles. As muscles stop working, sufferers lose the ability to speak, walk and even cough, but their minds remain alert, horribly aware of the spreading paralysis. No one knows what causes the disease, and most patients die when their breathing fails. By late last year, with Willie unable to speak and finding it so hard to swallow she could barely eat, the couple were willing to try anything...
DIED. Pelle Lindbergh, 26, last season's top goaltender in the National Hockey League, most valuable player for the Philadelphia Flyers and member of the 1980 Swedish Olympic hockey team; from severe brain and spinal-cord injuries suffered in an automobile accident; in Stratford, N.J. After celebrating a Flyers' victory at a bar with teammates, Lindbergh, legally drunk, hit a concrete wall on the way home in his Porsche. Said Flyers Coach Mike Keenan, after Lindbergh's family agreed to donate their son's organs for transplant: "It's appropriate. He died making one more save...
...which occurs in 2% or 3% of those who undergo the operation. To relieve the President's postoperative pain, which is expected after such surgery, doctors used a special technique called intrathecal injection of morphine. They delivered the opiate through a needle inserted in the sheath of Reagan's spinal cord, where it blocks nerve pathways through which pain signals are relayed to the brain. Even with the array of medical paraphernalia leading in and out of his body, Reagan should be able to carry out most of his important presidential duties. Said Dr. Oller: "One can conduct business even...
...phantom pain" he has suffered ("It hurts in areas where I'm supposed to be dead," he says) since the 1972 assassination attempt that left him a paraplegic; in Englewood, Colo. Wallace reported that he felt less pain in his legs after the operation, which involved opening the spinal column and inserting 80 electrodes to deaden nerves...
...care, pet-custody battles and even plastic surgery for animals testify to America's humanization of pets. Nemeth, who says her Balinese cat, Symphony, "talks" to her, knows her market. She spent thousands on wheelchairs and a hyperbaric chamber when her dog Kicsi was dying of spinal-cord degeneration. Nemeth's salespeople teach pet care to their customers, much as Nemeth's toy company helped educate parents about child development...