Word: transplanting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...most difficult trial of the last nine months has been the problems Epps has had with his health. In September, he underwent heart surgery and, in January, he received a kidney transplant. "As I think back on it, I don't quite know how [the family] managed it," says Epps...
DIED. ERMA BOMBECK, 69, humorist; following a kidney transplant; in San Francisco. The titles of her books spoke volumes about her view of motherhood, housewifery and life: I Lost Everything in the Post-Natal Depression; The Grass Is Always Greener over the Septic Tank. Starting at $3 a column in 1964, she composed ruefully real depictions of domestic America that found a national audience among women who saw little of themselves in June Cleaver. Bombeck eventually appeared in 600 papers, but still lived the unpretentious life she wrote of, laughing through travail...
DIED. MICHELLE CAREW, 18, daughter of baseball great Rod Carew; of leukemia; in Orange County, California. The search for bone-marrow donors turned her father into an advocate for transplant candidates, and her plight drew national attention to minority and biracial patients...
HOSPITALIZED. PAUL TSONGAS, 55, ex-Oval Office seeker; for a bone-marrow transplant from his sister to fight infections brought on by his lymph cancer, now in remission; in Boston...
...FRANCISCO: A housewife turned syndicated columnist whose self-deprecating humor will be fondly remembered, Erma Bombeck died today at 69 from complications following a kidney transplant at a hospital in San Francisco. Bombeck began writing her column in 1965 and three years later it was nationally syndicated, appearing twice a week in over 700 newspapers. She was a correspondent on ABC's "Good Morning America" for 11 years and starred in the brief sitcom "Maggie" which lasted for only eight episodes. Bombeck was also the author of several books including "The Grass Is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank...