Word: bedridden
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...tiny strands of intertwined amino acids, the complex molecules had begun to assume a very different shape, collapsing into sticky sheets. Before long, these gummy structures began to clump sloppily together, creating pits and divots where there had once been vital brain tissue. Within months Hall was delusional and bedridden. Not long after, he was dead...
...girls were whisked off to a children's hospital in a nearby city. "We thought they were going to die," recalls Patty, who remained bedridden in the community hospital where she works, suffering from dangerously high blood pressure. Her sister, Sandy Fiecke, acted as her surrogate for several days at the children's hospital. She held the tiny girls for hours, offered them bottles and wore Patty's or Mike's sweatshirts so the girls would come to know their parents' scents. The task of informing friends and family fell to Mike. "It's pretty hard to explain to your...
...Ultimately, victims are bedridden and fed through a straw, since they can't swallow or chew," Gusella said. "The same cell death causes intellectual loss, memory loss, and psychiatric changes like impulsive behavior and chronic depression...
Marvin's Room has all the makings for an odd and morbid play. Bessie, who takes care of her bedridden father Marvin and her disabled Aunt Ruth, finds out she herself is seriously ill. She reluctantly accepts the help of her long-estranged sister Lee and her two "problem" children, an older boy currently in a mental institution, and a younger one who would rather read 24 hours a day than deal with the people around...
...hardened, sinewy blond who is almost succeeding in fighting off the encroachments of middle age tells her unstylish, homebody sister how sorry she is that the homebody threw away her life caring for their bedridden father and addled aunt. The care giver insists she has no regrets: "I can't imagine a better way to have spent my life." Later she explains, "I have had such love." She does not mean her elderly wards' love for her -- they are often cross or ungrateful -- but rather hers for them. She is not confessing to neurotic possessiveness or bidding for sainthood...