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...where I would have an attack every six months. I was hospitalized three times." For the past five years, however, Arens has managed to remain symptom-free, the result, she is convinced, of regular treatments with a promising, if still experimental drug, beta interferon. "I used to see a wheelchair at the end of the tunnel," says Arens. "Now I see a life...
...forced tens of thousands of people to evacuate the buildings. It snarled traffic, stopped train service and knocked TV stations (many had antennas on the roof) off the air. The blast created a 200-ft. by 100-ft. crater. It also forged heroes. A woman in a wheelchair was carried down 66 stories by two friends. A pregnant woman was airlifted from a tower roof...
...from across the country arrive to see the monthly visions of Christ and the Virgin Mary. "We thought we would come just for the blessings, not necessarily to be healed," says Karen Horne of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, who has lived with multiple sclerosis for 17 years and been in a wheelchair for the past five. Duquelia Dickerson of Tampa, Florida, is hoping for something more. "The doctors told us three weeks ago that there is nothing they can do," she says, crying quietly and glancing down at the shaved head of her daughter Catherine, 4, who has brain cancer. "I just...
When he finally came home after nine months in the hospital, his social worker was at a loss to restore peace to the one part of his body that still worked perfectly: the brain trapped in the body lodged in the wheelchair. I ! require total care. I can't feed myself, I can't drive, I can't dress myself, I can't go to the bathroom by myself. I need someone to brush my teeth for me. I need someone to get me out of bed. I need someone to open the mail for me. I am always...
...years ago. Within hours of his injury, the football player received two new treatments -- one of them not yet approved in the U.S. -- that could help limit the damage. Although the drugs cannot cure paralysis, they may conserve enough nerve function to make the difference between confinement to a wheelchair and being able to walk with braces and crutches...