(Really, who can, at any age?) "Even though the situation may seem overwhelming, take heart," said Dr. Gordon Herz, a psychologist in private practice in Madison, Wisc., who specializes in neuropsychology and rehabilitation psychology.
Complications of Babesiosis include sepsis, in which the body's immune system goes into overdrive to fight an overwhelming infection; heart or kidney failure; and, as was the case in this patient, a rupture of the spleen.
Loss so overwhelming, our hearts are broken.
"It's not like there's been an overwhelming change of heart," said Alan Barbian of the Forest Service.
The consequence, says the report, is that signs of "government failure are overwhelming in the heart of Africa", and in some countries such as Zimbabwe the situation is so severe that the future outlook can only be bleak.
While the evidence is overwhelming that exercise improves heart health in most people and reduces the risk of developing or dying of heart disease, there have been intimations that people can do too much.
"When he was democratically elected in 1990 his support was overwhelming and from the heart," said James Morrell, director of the Haiti Democracy Project, who is among those onetime Aristide supporters now calling for his ouster.
But today - today I understood what that truly felt like and it filled my heart with overwhelming grief.
These are the people who were sent north in the chaos of an unexpectedly overwhelming wildfire in the heart of Canada's oil sands that forced an entire city, and its 85,000 souls, out.
While the overwhelming majority of congenital heart malformations do not segregate in Mendelian ratios, they do show familial aggregation, which suggests that genetic factors play a role in their development [ 2, 3].
