Word: stomachal
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...mildly affected patients, whereas the biggest problem for those of us who care for Alzheimer's patients is the prolongation of life in advanced stages of disease. The question for us is, When patients inevitably lose the ability to swallow, should we advise their families to put in a stomach tube to feed them? My own personal advice is that they shouldn't. If these patients could come out of their state for a moment, knowing they would return to a state of absolutely no comprehension and no hope, would they want to be kept alive? Would I want...
...staggering, holding her stomach, when she went to school," a neighbor told the New York Times. "She looked terrible. She could barely walk." But she showed up, and she slumped forward on her desk. When the teacher asked what was wrong, she said, "I'm sick...
...girl, what mattered after delivering the baby was cloaking her latest humiliation in a thin veil of dignity. On the way to school, she reportedly told a friend, "There's been a rumor that I'm pregnant, but I'm not," and invited the girl to feel her tender stomach. "She refused to admit that she had given birth once she lost the baby," a friend of the family said. "It was as if she could not comprehend it." Her teachers didn't help: though she had faithfully attended classes, they say they never realized she was pregnant...
...door, and when that didn't work he slipped into the Carr family kitchen and laced some thallium nitrite into a pack of 16-oz. Coca-Cola Classic bottles. A few days later Peggy Carr's hair began falling out. Her feet burned, her fingers tingled and her stomach turned. Within a few weeks she was in a coma; three months later she was dead. Her sons and husband also showed symptoms but eventually recovered...
...Base are hand-built prototypes of what these pilots claim are the two hottest fighter planes ever made. The flyers should know. For three months, in separate flight tests, they have been putting the experimental aircraft, designated YF-22 and YF-23, through their paces: landing in crosswinds, performing stomach-churning 360 degrees rolls and blasting through the atmosphere at twice the speed of sound...