Word: weights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Seeking even more therapeutic scenery, after a day of White House work, he left for his Texas ranch at week's end to complete his recuperation. On arrival at Johnson City, Johnson promised to watch his weight and otherwise behave as the "model patient" his doctors called him. He was still chipper. But, putting a hand on his abdomen, he observed: "I hurt good...
...bowel as a nonfunctioning blind loop. When the man recovered from the operation, he continued to overeat, but the food digested in his stomach and duodenum passed more directly into his colon. He absorbed enough protein and starch to keep him alive but not enough fat to maintain his weight...
...patient lost 96 lbs. in little more than a year, and his leg ulcer healed. Then he developed a hernia at the operation scar, so the surgeons went in again. Since his weight loss had been only moderate, they cut out a foot of jejunum. That did it. The clerical worker is now down to a merely rotund 165 lbs.; he is back at his office desk, able to tie his shoelaces, and happy as never before...
...groundfire, Bell developed an armor-plated HueyCobra with a turbine engine, is hoping for Pentagon approval. Hughes Tool last spring won a contract for a light observation helicopter, is building more than 700 OH-6As, which cruise at 145 m.p.h. and can lift slightly more than their own weight...
...still in miserable shape: his weight was down from 180 lbs. to 117 [ thought I had only six or seven months to live," he says. Though he lived longer, his health continued to deteriorate. He underwent surgery for intestinal trouble, and for a while he was in traction because of a slipped spinal disk. On top of all that, it was clear to his doctors that four years after the stabbing, Gormley had a heart problem. They sent him to National Jewish Hospital in Denver, where "None may enter who can pay, none can pay who enter " By the time...