1 result for (book:deavf1 AND heading:"essay 6 tuesday april 20 1982" AND stemmed:age)
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candidate
joints
hospital
surgical
replacement
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(9:12.) In this case it was the operation cause. It was the only way to go: What a crime to accept less than full, complete motion at my age (53)!
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What might happen to the body, I wondered, even if its psychic tenant were willing to endure any or all of those “surgical procedures”? I answered my own question by remembering accounts I had on file, explaining how people of various ages had withstood numerous, incredible operations, sometimes over a period of years. But I was horrified to think that my dear wife might become involved in a similar reality, with or without my unwitting compliance. I knew that she was far from making any decisions about surgery, but I recoiled from pushing any such suggestions upon her, no matter how fine it would be to see her on her feet. Joint-replacement operations were irreversible procedures, and I also had on file material about how they sometimes failed.
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