Word: stroke
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Golf is another part of the Clinton cure. The President has said he wants to break 80 before his 50th birthday, and regular golfing partners say his liberal use of the mulligan -- the free shot given to duffers who botch a stroke -- probably makes that an attainable goal. The golf course is one of the few places where Clinton can quickly shut the presidency out of his mind. He does not tolerate shop talk on the links and has said he likes the game because he can play it slowly. When an aide approached him last year on a Vineyard...
...Cincinnati, Ohio. His breathing was shallow; his eyes had rolled back. "I was frantic because I could see he was withering," she recalls. Doctors found the child's weight had slipped below 5 lbs. Their diagnosis: severe dehydration. Bradley was starving. A few days later, he suffered a stroke. Just how much damage it caused remains to be seen...
...camp begins with evaluations on Monday, moving on to stroke-training and analysis during the week...
Campers get a certificate and a t-shirt, as well as a written stroke evaluation which Lloyd says in one of the advantages of the camp...
Castro draws on personal experience in the book as well. Her father's stroke in 1991 confronted her with a bureaucracy that made cost, not wellness, the basis for his hospital release. Not until he realized that his recovery depended on himself and not the white coats he had so believed in all his life did her father improve. He finished reading Janice's book just before he died in May, at 79. "I get calls from doctors who have read that chapter who comment what a brave and determined man my father must have been," she says...