Word: bedridden
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...demonstration of the cingulate cortex's importance to consciousness, Damasio recalls a patient he calls L. After a comparatively minor stroke, she became bedridden, lying utterly still and mute for six months even though her physical condition seemed to suggest she could have resumed her daily life. During her ordeal, she later told Damasio, she felt absolutely no desire to speak or move. "Her mind," he says, "had not been imprisoned in the jail of her immobility. Instead it appeared that there had not been much mind at all, and nothing that would resemble consciousness." It turned out that...
...ATTACK It was like a Hitchcock movie, but it was real life. Last week scientists reported that fire ants--so named because their sting feels like a hot poker--swarmed Mississippi nursing homes, attacking and killing two patients. The elderly patients were bedridden and couldn't escape the invaders. But healthy folks who live in infested areas--such as the Southeast and parts of California--are also vulnerable to attacks. If you see the creatures indoors, immediately exterminate them with pesticide before they close...
...interest in academics came at an early age. At the age of 10, Kety was bedridden after a car accident. His parents gave him the 12-volume Book of Knowledge to read; Kety read it cover-to-cover...
Parenthood did not come easily to Kevin and Kim Knussman. First there was a painful year of fertility treatments. Then complications in Kim's pregnancy forced her doctors to induce labor prematurely, leaving her bedridden. Kevin, a trooper with the Maryland state police for 18 years, applied for extended leave to tend to his wife and infant, a request that fell under the federal Family and Medical Leave Act and a state law that provides paid leave for primary caregivers. He was allotted just 10 days, at the end of which his wife was still hemorrhaging and too weak...
...League of Nations. Edith Wilson pulled off a masterful charade for the benefit of Congress and the country, becoming in the process what some called the "28th and a half" President. She skillfully arranged an early version of a photo op for a congressional delegation, propping up her inert, bedridden husband with pillows in a darkened sickroom. It was all to convince the public that the President was still in charge. Although she acted out of love, she damaged both the country and Wilson's legacy. "Woodrow Wilson was first my beloved husband whose life I was trying to save...