And he's painfully direct about the lovelessness, insecurity and intimations of mortality afflicting him at only 48 years old.
Yet in spite of this flawless record, she has been afflicting him and behaving like one who does not know the difference between right and wrong.
The pain afflicting him — gout, rheumatism, nervous tension, eye trouble and more — surely weakened his Muse, as did the laudanum (tincture of opium) he took to feel better.
The police said there were no signs of foul play, and no suicide note, and his friends said they knew of no serious ailments afflicting him.
Lenin's illness at least mimicked the progression of syphilis, afflicting him for months with occasional seizures and excruciating headaches, as well as bouts of nausea, sleeplessness and partial paralysis.
If I hadn't been so cocksure about what I thought was afflicting him, even using the appropriate medical lingo, which likely swayed the opinions of the nurses and doctors who saw him in the emergency room, could we have avoided much of the trauma of that night?
