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...took the subway downtown recently to the great lofts of New York City's Silicon Alley to make a condolence call. The infant Stim, a Website that was born here in May amid a tide of ain't-the-Net-great hype, had just succumbed, carried off by a corrective wave of antihype. I figured I'd pay my respects to the survivors...
...made my commode chair put the seat on sideways, and when I tried using it that way, it made my decubitus wound much worse. So one of my humiliations is that my bed is also a bathroom. You're given a suppository and what is called a dig-stim, for digital stimulation, which means that a nurse literally puts her finger up in there to make it come out. If that doesn't work, they give you a Fleet enema. I go through that every night...
...Anyway, after the ranging comes the physical therapy. We do something called E-stim. They put me in a pair of bicycle pants like the racers wear, which have electrodes in various parts. Then they place me on a bike, an exercise machine called the Stimaster. The machine puts out 50 volts of current, and it makes me move my muscles, causing contractions and extensions from the ankles all the way up to the butt muscles. I started out only being able to tolerate 10 minutes at a time. Now I'm up to an hour. We're building...
Counters Sprinkel, executive vice pres ident of Chicago's Harris Trust & Savings Bank: "The basic Administration strategy has been to avoid massive stim ulus in the early part of the recovery so that it could be a sustained recovery...
Casual Use. Most fertility experts insist that the drugs are indeed safe -if they are used with care and discretion. Unfortunately, says Manhattan Gynecologist Edward Stim, who rarely prescribes the drugs, they are sometimes given on a casual, "Why not give it a try?" basis. Clomid, a synthetic hormone-like drug, seems to work by stimulating the pituitary gland to release hormones that help to ripen the ovum. Pergonal, a hormonal extract from the urine of postmenopausal women, primes the ovaries so that another hormone -human chorionic gonadotropin or HCG-can ensure the release of the ovum. Neither treatment should...