Which only made matters worse. Ruth felt like all she was good for was saving people from ending up sick or even worse dead. "With our well trained stomachs my father an!.
d I could take whatever mom was dishing out, but for most people it was pure poison"(12). If Ruth's mother thought something was bad her husband unfortunately got the job of being the taster. So wonder he wasn't driven to an early grave.
Ruth has realized that food has played a major role in helping her acquire friendships when she thought she would find none. As a little girl she befriended her Aunt Birdie's cook Alice, loving her as family, learning the ways of the kitchen. Ruth loved helping Alice cook it gave her the knowledge to know that not everyone was as bad of a cook as her own mother was. "Alice is the cook in our family"(21). Alice was Ruth's first real taste of freedom. She realized that food and making it brought people together; even if it was sitting at the table eating her favorite apple dumplings with hard sauce. Trying to figure out what happened to Hortense. Ruth made many friends in her lifelong journey of food. At thirteen her mother enrolled her in to a all girl French school in Montreal, Canada. Feeling abandoned, when she never thought she would fit in a girl named Janine appointed herself guardian over Ruth and showed her the ropes of how to get by. Later she befriended a girl named Beatrice. Ruth treated Beatrice to foods she had never tasted before. Smoked meats and Chinese foods "I was too grateful for her company to ask why we were spending my money, but it was enough to eat all day"(63). In return Beatrice took Ruth home and Ruth made good with Beatrice's father as he fed her foods that made her mouth water, making him take a liking to her instantly. Ruth made friends that her parents didn't approve of. Having parties at home cooking for a bunch of friends. "I had been cooking all my life, but only as a way to please grown-up; now I discovered it had other virtues"(74).
Ruth Reichl makes it obvious from the beginning of "Tender at the Bone-, that she grew up in a far from ordinary family, her mother being the cause of much of this weirdness. Her mother plays the central role in her family and thus has a powerful impact on Ruth. This impact is vast and cannot be d...
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Even though blood work may show leukemia the only way to be positive would be a bone marrow test. This is done by inserting a needle into a large bone (usually the hip) and performing a biopsy on it. ... Side effects from radiation therapy include fatigue, skin rashes and dry tender skin. The last step to recovery would be a bone marrow transplant. In a bone marrow transplant healthy stem cells provided by a donor or harvested from the patients own marrow. ...
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A bone marrow aspiration is where a needle is injected into the bone and liquid from the marrow is received" (Leukemia, Medline Plus). Another way to get a bone marrow sample is by performing a bone marrow biopsy. "A biopsy is when a large needle is used to get a sample of bone and bone marrow" (Leukemia, Medline Plus). ... "A bone marrow transplantation works by someone in the family (usually a sibling) transferring their healthy bone marrow into the disease bone marrow" (Leukemia, Medline Plus). ... "During a treatment like radiation, it can cause the skin to b...
The tendon is the structure in your body that connects your muscles to the bones. ... When a muscle contracts it pulls on a bone to cause movements. ... Most commonly, the tendonitis will occur right where the tendon attaches to bone, or where it wraps around a bone or joint. A tendon is the strong, white fibrous tissues that connect muscles to bones. ... Some of the common symptoms are a sharp or achy pain, tenderness and swelling, restricted movement in the area surrounding the injury, or weakness in the arm or leg due to pain. ...
