Word: stroke
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...diluting it, thus causing creepy side effects. Dr. Debra Jaliman, a dermatologist who teaches a Botox course at Manhattan's Mount Sinai, is a proponent of the drug but has corrected nasty complications from other doctors' misapplied injections: "Eyelid droop; slurred speech, as if they've had a stroke; dropped mouth; asymmetrical forehead; eyes that don't shut...
Five years ago, Kirk Douglas was living the life of a Hollywood screen legend. But Douglas, then 80, suffered a debilitating stroke. He tells the story of his journey back to health in his new book, My Stroke of Luck (Morrow). He discussed his recovery with TIME...
...your life changed on a day-to-day basis since your stroke...
...know, when you have a stroke, it's so depressing. Especially an actor who can't talk. What do you do? Wait for silent pictures? It's so depressing. You have suicidal impulses. But eventually you realize that depression also comes from too much self-awareness, that you have to reach out and think of others and help other people. If you do that, really, it's almost selfish, because it makes you feel good. It relieves a certain amount of your own problem--not all, of course, but a certain amount...
...write that you were so depressed after your stroke that at one point you loaded a gun and put the barrel in your mouth. Were you serious about suicide...