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...would walk around the hospital with a beeper, and when they'd get a patient who spoke only Spanish, they'd beep me, and I'd go and translate," Gordon says. "I learned how to say things like bowel movement and catheter in Spanish...
Most of the estimated 10 million to 12 million Americans who suffer from incontinence still feel that way. "We talk about rape or homosexuality but not about loss of bladder and bowel control," observes Simon's founder Cheryle Gartley. "It's the last of the closet issues." But the door is slowly opening. This month in Boston, researchers gathered to discuss promising medical remedies at a joint meeting of the International Continence Society and the Urodynamics Society. Encouraging, too, are recent developments, from newsletters to helpful products that greatly ease the daily burden of patients. Today's message: incontinence...
Those tidings are particularly welcome to the elderly. About 13% of all people over 65 have urinary incontinence, and twice as many women as men are affected, according to preliminary findings of a Harvard Medical School study. (No similar study exists on loss of bowel control, though estimates suggest the figure is far lower.) Nursing homes spend $8 billion a year to cope with the bladder problem, reports Gerontologist Neil Resnick of Boston's Beth Israel Hospital, "more than is spent on the general population for dialysis and coronary-bypass surgery combined." Many younger people are victims, including children with...
...that once the disease has begun, it will probably get worse. Stimulated by the release of estrogen, the implanted tissue grows and spreads. Cells from the growths break away and are ferried by lymphatic fluid throughout the body, sometimes, although rarely, forming islands in the lungs, kidneys, bowel or even the nasal passages. There they respond to the menstrual cycle, causing monthly bleeding from the rectum or wherever else they have settled...
...leader retired to California for a few weeks of rest and recuperation. Television projected the familiar--if not blurry--image of a vigorous Reagan reposing at his mountaintop ranch. Patient camera crews perched on a neighboring peak even captured the man on horseback, defying the cancer removed from his bowel a month earlier...