Doctors told her that she would probably be an invalid for life, but a social worker who had occasion to visit her while she was in the hospital told me that he had found her hunched up in a bed near an open window, declaring loudly, "I can't stand it here with all these dying people.
Ludovic Kennedy wrote in his history of the vessel that she "lived an invalid's life and died a cripple's death".
Finally, he brought back word: Sasha will be exchanged for the invalid; Denis's life will depend upon the success of the deal.
"If he had been an invalid all his life, he could have borne it, but the truth is he stayed perfectly healthy and died at 86, so it was all for nothing".
Kilbride, who died in 1966, was "an invalid all her life", according to her nephew, "and was much cheered by [Tolkien's] chatty letters and cards... books were given to her as they were published".
Despite urban homesteading, the Harborside festival marketplace, the Camden Yards ball park and other initiatives undertaken by the public and private spheres, Baltimore continues to epitomize the city as a permanent invalid of modern life.
It relied on centuries-old precedents to say policies that were, in reality, investors' bets on human life were invalid from the beginning.
Toibin faithfully recreates this scene, but makes it the stimulus to a flashback about Henry's early life, his invalid sister Alice and their childhood see-sawing between Europe and America.
Meanwhile, the book's tackling of disability and the life of "invalids" is at once intriguing and troubling.
For generations, invalids here have sipped life through feeding tubes, grown men with the minds of children have hummed tuneless melodies and patients tormented by delusions have banged their bodies against the walls with wordless screams.
