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Bell's Palsy is a common side-effect of untreated (or undertreated) LD.
Former senator Norm Coleman diagnosed with Bell's palsy 2009
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She shares her experiences in her blog Terrible Palsy, which is described as:
Do It Myself Blog – Glenda Watson Hyatt » 2007 » August 2007
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But another god called Palsy (_Supa_) rose up and said, "Bring men and let them be like the candle-nut torch, which when it is once out cannot be blown up again.
The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume I (of 3) The Belief Among the Aborigines of Australia, the Torres Straits Islands, New Guinea and Melanesia James George Frazer 1897
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Father Walker is taken with a Lethargy as was shutting up his shop to goe to their privat Meeting: His left side was chiefly struck with a kind of Palsy: His speech came to him something between 6. and 7.
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Mr. Potts, of that kind of Palsy of the lower limbs which is frequently found to accompany a curvature of the spine, and in which a carious state of the vertebræ is found to exist, no instructive analogy is discoverable; slight convulsive motions may indeed happen in the disease proceeding from curvature of the spine; but palpitating motions of the limbs, such as belong to the disease here described, do not appear to have been hitherto noticed.
An Essay on the Shaking Palsy James Parkinson
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Abuse of people with disabilities is nothing new; in fact, there is an entire Facebook page titled "Cerebral Palsy, Stop the Abuse!"
Geri Jewell: Geri-ism #2: Unmasking the Real Disabilities Geri Jewell 2011
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His fame came from his book, An Essay on the Shaking Palsy (1817), in which he described the disease which is now named after him.
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Loreen Arbus, the first woman television executive in America to head up programming at a major network (Showtime and Lifetime), is committed to heightening awareness and support of people with disabilities through this scholarship program and her work with United Cerebral Palsy, the organization co-founded by her parents, Isabelle and Leonard H. Goldenson, Founder/Chairman, ABC.
Twilight Lexicon » Peter Facinelli To Be a Presenter at Awards 2010
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I have Cerebral Palsy, which for me means I can't walk, speak, or use muscles in traditional ways.
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He cast RJ Mitte in the role who is an actor with Cerebral Palsy.
Deborah Calla: Awarding for Ability, Not Disability Deborah Calla 2010
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