Word: therapist
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...ground and hit his head. The impact of the fall left my 62-year-old father in a three-week-long coma. One craniotomy, four blood transfusions and several minor operations later, he is slowly beginning to regain consciousness. On good days, he can whisper his name, squeeze his therapist's hand on command, and breathe for 12 continuous hours without the help of a machine. On bad days, he drifts in and out of sleep, overwhelmed by the seemingly contradictory doses of medication they pump into his stomach by the cupful. One tries to keep his heart rate active...
...kissed my mother was a good day - one of my dad's best. I was home for spring break, spending my days alongside my mom at the downtown Chicago rehabilitative institute where my father has now been moved. His physical therapy session had just begun, and his therapist was busily testing the strength in his arms and neck, checking to see whether my father - a six-foot, three-inch-tall man who once weighed as much as a linebacker - could do something as simple as keep his back and neck in an upright, seated position. It was a test...
...leaned in close to my dad, told him in Greek that she loved him and wanted him to come home, and asked that he try to do what the therapist was asking of him - that this was the only way he would ever be well enough to come home. He responded by straightening out his neck and lifting his chin just enough for his lips to brush against hers. The therapy session continued...
...others who have come before us. Those of us who have been promoting sexual literacy have relied on the work of such giants as Alfred Kinsey, Masters and Johnson, Helen Singer Kaplan and DR. ALEX COMFORT. His book The Joy of Sex was an incredible tool that every sex therapist used at one time or another to help teach clients how to make sex fun and enjoy it to its fullest. But even more important was that The Joy of Sex could be found in every bookstore. Millions of people bought it and began to explore their sexuality in ways...
...teenage daughter broke up with her boyfriend, and she's taking it hard--like Fatal Attraction hard. She calls him, cries, sees him in school, cries, writes him, cries and just can't seem to get over it. Two of her girlfriends have told me she should see a therapist. I just wonder: What happened to working things out for yourself? Are we really helping kids by carting them off to one specialist after another? --A Worried...