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When they finally arrived, the doctor turned out to be a knee specialist, hardly unqualified, but still clearly uncomfortable with explaining the nature of the fracture and the wrapping of the cast for my arm. My hand was swollen around my class ring, and he immediately cut the ring off, laughing at my suggestion of trying a little soap and water first. I headed home three hours after I arrived at UHS with an ace bandage "cast" and a broken ring, wishing I'd sprained my knee...
...Streak has had two close calls. The first came during game No. 444 in April 1985, when Ripken sprained his ankle on a pick-off play in the third inning. Although he continued playing, his ankle was badly swollen and discolored after the game. Fortunately, the Orioles had scheduled an exhibition game against the Naval Academy the next day. The second near-miss came as a result of a bench-clearing melee with the Seattle Mariners during game No. 1,790 in June of '93. Ripken twisted his knee, and when he woke up the next morning, he couldn...
...premature and sickly; the doctors had told Teodora, a recent Mexican immigrant, that she must bring him back if unusual symptoms developed. Back to County-USC, that is: without money or insurance, none of the area's private clinics will see her. As a nurse inspected her son's swollen lymph nodes and scheduled a blood test, Teodora allowed that she knew enough of Los Angeles County's latest disaster--the fiscal one--to dread its consequences. "If the hospital weren't here," she said, "I don't know what I'd do. I don't know where...
...wrought-iron fence to immobilize them and then proceeded to batter his limbs with steel pipes. When the ambulance arrived 20 minutes later, he was covered with blood. His left leg was broken in four places. His right leg, the shinbone sticking through the skin, was so swollen that the bars of the fence had to be cut away to release...
...nation's midsection continued to battle the rising waters and flooding of major rivers, swollen this year by unusually heavy spring rainfall. So far, communities appeared to be coping better than during the deluge of 1993, in part because of new control programs designed to manage rather than fight the inevitable flooding...