Word: wheelchairs
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...gonna be" (my very favorite relative-pronoun clause in pop music) and the promise that the last dance will be the most intimate of all. The song is even lovelier if you know the story behind its creation. Leiber, in the book: "Doc was confined to a wheelchair for most of his life, so he couldn?t dance. He was married to this gorgeous blond woman [Broadway and TV actress Willi Burke], and ... he?d say, Yeah, we go out, that?s cool - I like to watch her.? That?s the song...
Last Thursday, 13 days after the attack, Jessie's parents put him in a wheelchair and rolled him around the intensive-care unit, IVs dangling behind them. Jessie responds to pain stimuli, and his eyes are open. But his parents are not sure he can see them. At his bedside, they talk to him about Digimon cartoons and other things he enjoys. The parents were there when De Campos moved Jessie's reattached arm to make him more comfortable, and the boy moved it back. They were there when he wiggled his hand. "They continue to view every small step...
...hour flight from Amsterdam to Tokyo, Eiko Ishii was thanking the attendants at the aircraft exit when her face went white and she collapsed. Her husband helped her to a seat and Ishii lost consciousness. Her hands began jerking in spasms. She awoke to her sister telling her a wheelchair was waiting by the door. Sitting down again, she blacked out once more and her eyes rolled back in her head. "My husband and sister told me they thought I was dying," she says...
...Caroline is released that night. Next day, the clan floods the fourth floor of HealthSouth to finally pay the visit we had come for. Mama, in a wheelchair, is surrounded by her 85-year-old husband, her three kids, her son-in-law and daughter-in-law and her five grandkids-our three and Gail and Scott's two. There's a lot of talk about all the recent trips to the hospital by everyone here, and about Mom's hip, but the acute focus is on Caroline. She's tired but happy, still with no appetite and still with...
...think of Henri Matisse, wheelchair-bound in his 80s, who continued to create art - cutting out bits of colored paper, painting with his brush in his mouth, supervising his decoration of the Chapel of the Rosary in Saint-Paul de Vence - because it was what he did, because it kept him alive. For those reasons, Les Paul shows up at Iridium each Monday evening, putting the final touches, grace notes, to the edifice of his achievement...