Word: walke
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...caused the stroke. If it is in the anterior cerebral artery, the leg on the opposite side will be more severely affected. But most strokes affect the middle cerebral artery, so the arm is more handicapped than the leg. This is why 90% of stroke victims learn to walk again, while only 10% to 20% regain full use of the right arm-though almost 50% of those under 45, even with severe impairment, could probably do so with proper training...
Blunted Senses. The power of speech, and the ability to write and walk, are measurable. Far more elusive, says Dr. Diller, are the variations in loss of memory. Usually, it is knowledge of recent and current events that seems to vanish. But it may be the memory of colors, or dates, or shapes, or perhaps most significant, of emotionally important events. Even the senses present puzzling problems. Vision may become poorer, but so subtly that the beset patient does not recognize his difficulty. Or he may be depressed by a general decline in his responsiveness to sensory stimuli...
...WALK HOME (205 pp.)-Gwyn Jones-Norton...
...walk of Novelist Jones's title refers to the picaresque progress of the book's hero across the width of Wales in search of the father who had abandoned him and his impoverished mother years before. The highway, like the highways of Fielding or Smollett, yields a complete novelist's kit of cutpurses and murderers, madmen and saints. The hero is set upon by mastiffs, trampled to insensibility by a mob, and nearly deprived of his virginity by a jade. He meets a cold-eyed man accompanied by a pox-pitted villain named Scabbo...
...mind whether he was writing a fantasy or a piece of purely historical fiction. When the hero goes to the gallows, a reader can only wonder whether the eye of the Wise Man of Ty Cerrig sent him there-or circumstantial evidence and a bamboozled jury. In fact, The Walk Home is best read as a sort of historical travelogue rather than a novel. It tells a reader all he needs to know-or will want to-of a semibarbarous land and time when a Sin-Eater was still summoned to the side of the dead to draw...