Word: stroke
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Patient "X" is much more clearly ill. She has suffered a major stroke; her entire left side is paralyzed. It's obvious to everyone that she's severely impaired -- everyone, that is, except her. Ask her how she feels, and she responds, "Just fine." Point out her lifeless left arm, and she seems baffled. She can be convinced, through persistent effort, that the arm doesn't work. But a few minutes later, she has forgotten all about...
Former Leverett House Master John J. Conway died yesterday at Massachusetts General Hospital following a stroke...
...Lawton Chileswas hospitalized after suffering a "little stroke" that may indicate he suffered a more serious attack. The 65-year-old Democrat temporarily suffered slurred speech, unsteady coordination and weakness Tuesday morning. Physicians in Tallahassee said it would take them at least a day to discover whether Chiles suffered a full stroke, and longer to know whether he suffered any brain damage...
Meanwhile, in a prescient stroke of network scheduling, Grant and Wednesday's other celebrity arrest -- former White House press secretary Dee Dee Myers -- were both slated to appear on the July 10 edition of "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno." No one knows whether Grant will show, but Myers -- as her publicist put it -- is "still booked...
...intellect, his ability to talk at length about history or classical music. He also discerned character and bravery. Once, when the two witnessed what they feared would become a brutal hazing, Martinez watched Koernke prepare to wade in on behalf of the victim: "He was going to butt-stroke somebody to protect this guy." (Instead, Martinez woke a staff member, who broke...