Word: wristed
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Rosa was a Medicaid mother of three with a painful wrist. In her early twenties, with no husband, on child-support, she was a typical patient from "the neighborhood". Rosa was pretty saucy though; she let you know she didn't like waiting, she was snappy during her interview, she made sure I wrote her out prescriptions for all the medication I recommended, even the over-the-counter ones. This way they would all be paid-for. She spoke no English, and she even poked fun at my clinic Spanish. I made a note of it in her chart...
...better?" she accused with a twinkle. Now we got into it: Any better? You've been living in my country all this time and you haven't learned any English? A lively debate on the merits of a bilingual society gave way to a cortisone shot for the same wrist pain. I had our therapists make her a splint and said 'adios'. I liked Rosa...
...Moving ahead about five years, I was now clinic Attending - in other words, the boss. "We found your old note on this patient. I think she has DeQuervains (the same wrist problem) again. And could you look at the patient in the next room with me too? I think she has the same thing" The resident was a good one. His report on their histories and physical exams was perfect. He was thinking about operating on both women...
...began to think about suicide. I did attempt once in 1999. I was hurt by something one of my family members said. My buddy and I had bought these matching knives, and I took [one] and I kind of poked a hole in my wrist. I began to cut down towards my elbow, and I had just purchased a CD by DMX, and basically this rapper was talking to God. He said, "I'm in so much pain when I'm here, Lord, please take me away". And then God says, "I put you here...
...Almost nothing in Samandi's life was left to personal choice. The only jewelry the Tiger women can wear are three dog tags, around the wrist, neck and waist that ensure identification of even the most dismembered of bodies. The Tigers enforce a hairstyle of two plaits tied in loops across the back of the head to avoid, so they say, hair snagging on bushes during an attack. Music is limited to revolutionary songs. The photos that plastered Samandi's bedroom walls were of dead suicide bombers, not pop stars. And movies in Tiger territory were a strict diet...