Word: wounded
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Something about the way the defensive line blitzed Nakielny on Princeton's last-ditch drive with time expiring, something about the hits the secondary put on the Tiger wideouts as the clock wound down, something about the way Menick and the offensive line's uniforms looked like something out of a Tide commercial made you believe Murphy's faith...
...visit her mother in the home, some 50 miles northeast of San Francisco, and find her lying immobile in a filthy bed. "She was not turned and kept clean and dry, which led to the bedsores," Ann recalls. A bedsore on Bessie's left hip turned into a gaping wound that would not heal, despite repeated whirlpool baths. Creekside nurse Patricia Lloyd knew why: the special washing machine for cleaning dirty bedpans had broken down. "So we washed bedpans in the whirlpool," she says, "and then we'd put patients with big bedsores, like Bessie Seday, in there." Fixing Bessie...
...bedsore on the left heel of an 87-year-old man. State inspectors recommended a $24,000 fine, but the nursing home appealed, saying the wriggling larvae didn't constitute evidence of poor care. Besides, the nursing home argued, maggots are good for eating away dead tissue inside a wound. The state hearing officer agreed with the nursing home and threw out the fine...
...fact, she echoes the nursing home's argument. "In an era of alternative medicine, maggots are being used for debridement of dead tissue," she says. "The fact that these sorts of eggs and maggots can hatch in a 24-hour period may not even mean that there was improper wound care." With regulators like that, the elderly in nursing homes may have more to fear than either the maggots or the nursing-home operators...
...Marshall arrived at Harvard on a scholarship. Planning on earning a Ph.D in art history, she wound up earning an M.A. in education. It was only after that, in 1973, that she went on to Yale Law School...