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HOSPITALIZED. CHRISTOPHER REEVE, 42, actor; for a broken neck and injured spinal cord; in Charlottesville, Virginia. Reeve, who leaped to stardom in the 1978 big-screen version of Superman, was competing in an equestrian event when his horse refused a jump and Reeve was thrown to the ground, breaking two vertebrae at the base of his skull. Reeve is on a respirator, paralyzed below the neck, but reporting sensation in his chest. Doctors will operate this week to prevent further damage to his spinal cord...
Actor Christopher Reeve, who was paralyzed in a horse-riding accident on May 27, underwent risky, all-day surgery today in Virginia to stave off further damage to his spinal cord. The operation, which has triggered heart attacks in some patients, was expected to allow Reeve to be propped up in bed, to breathe more easily and to fight off recurrences of pneumonia. But the 42-year-old actor will likely remain on a respirator for life...
...this case means not only that it makes good dramatic sense by itself, but also that it is not necessary to know its writing was an act of heroism. For the past few years, as he recounted in A Whole New Life, Price has been almost totally incapacitated by spinal cancer. What little can be detected of this in the novel is transmuted, without self-pity, as a minor theme, the son's helplessness and fretful dreaming in his last weeks...
...striking her in the head 13 times with a lead crystal candlestick and crushing her skull. Thereafter, she and her boyfriend mutilated the body, inserting a knife into the dead woman's neck in an effort to make her death appear to be a suicide, and nearly severing her spinal cord...
Bacterial meningitis is a disease that can cause inflammation around the brain and spinal cord and make victims very sick within a day of exposure. It is fatal in about one out of every seven cases, public health authorities...