Word: spoons
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...weakness, headaches and bouts of fatigue that last for six months or more can all be signs of CFS. Many patients are unable to work and even become bedridden. Alan Tolkoff, a Los Angeles management consultant who has recovered from CFS, got so weak that his wife had to spoon-feed him. With no specific tests to pinpoint the syndrome, patients having milder symptoms can go through several physicians before finding one who believes something is seriously wrong. However, more and more doctors are listening to the complaints and learning to distinguish CFS patients from people with tendencies toward hypochondria...
...allow a loved one to waste away, or else they act to hasten death, with all the guilt and recrimination that entails. A state attorney accused 87-year-old Ruth Hoffmeister of wanting to starve her husband to death. Every evening for the past six years, Ruth has spoon-fed her husband Edward, who has Alzheimer's disease. When he began losing weight, their Pompano Beach, Fla., nursing home would have been obliged by state regulations to force-feed him through a tube. Ruth protested the bureaucratic intrusion. "There is nothing so important to an Alzheimer's patient," she insisted...
...such a gradualist, spoon-fed approach to the number of Holocaust victims cannot enhance understanding of the human tragedy of the Holocaust. If the point is really to remember life, not numbers, why not remember all life? Eleven million will "click," just like six million, if it really stands for people, not Arabic numerals...
...undergone more than 50 operations, "You cannot be at the mercy of your body any longer." In 1986 she allegedly advised Isaacson to take an overdose of cardiac medicines, which resulted in a coma. The next year Jenks allegedly emptied 29 Seconal capsules into a container of yogurt and spoon-fed her patient with the lethal mixture. At the last spoonful, Isaacson balked and decided she wanted to live. Jenks was able to induce vomiting, and Isaacson was saved. Later, Isaacson claims, Jenks persuaded her to take an overdose of cardiac drugs and morphine, which she managed to sleep...
Perhan is a comer, and not just because he can move a spoon up a wall with his bare will. The teenager is eager to escape his wastrel uncle Merdzan (Husnija Hasimovic), who practices Tai Chi and chases every village female over twelve. Perhan is desperate to pay the hospital bills for his crippled sister (Elvira Sali) and earn enough money to marry his girlfriend Azra (Sinolicka Trpkova). He must do it quickly, before Merdzan can get his lecherous hands on her. "Make sure her feet don't see more sky than earth," Perhan warns Grandma when he hires himself...