Word: swollenness
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...Youths came with guns and took everything,'' says Ahmed Brown, a Hutu whose left eye is swollen from a blow with a club. He is still living in his old neighborhood but says, "I am so afraid. We have seen too many people gunned down.'' Bujumbura is now mainly Tutsi, its Hutu residents forced into a few ghettolike areas like the northern section of the city called Kamenge. Out in the countryside, Hutu gangs roam the hills around Tutsi encampments, preying on those who venture...
Even though my knee was swollen beyond belief and I could not even walk, I was not allowed to see an orthopedist that day and I had to call and make an appointment. Of course, when I did call the next day for an appointment, there wasn't one available until December 22, a day after Winter Break begins. What was I to do in the mean time? The answer was obvious. I really couldn't do anything. I was instructed to remain on Advil, and "feel better...
...terribly swollen glands," she says. "I couldn't swallow, couldn't eat, I don't remember ever being so sick...
...mono spot test on everyone with a sore throat," he says. "People come in early with no swollen glands...
...seeing an individual at different clinical stages of the disease," Rosenthal says. "I've seen people with just a sore throat. We say 'keep us informed' and a week later they say 'I still feel lousy.' Now they have a palpable spleen and swollen glands [and we give the spot test...