("She was the tenderest person but with a will of iron," he recalls. "I thought, What the hell, what's one more?") Geng had no job at the time, no health insurance, and very little cash, so Roth and a couple of other friends covered her medical expenses, and he set up a fund to provide her with financial backup.
If you are a tender, sensitive person who acutely feels the ups and downs of your emotional state, you probably shy away from this business.
And there's this very sympathetic young man, Norman, in charge of the place, the most tender, thoughtful person she's met so far.
"People look at him as a mean, tough guy," said his best friend, Don Willis, who met him playing Bitty Basketball when they were 7. "But he's a real tender, sweet person".
Tender treatment: Person-centred care * Person-centred dementia care, based partly on the work of the late Tom Kitwood and the Bradford Dementia Group, is less concerned with the symptoms of dementia than in searching for the subjective reality of the person with the disease.
"I'm such a tender-hearted person, it all did effect me. "People would put me down and say how 'worthless' I am," she continued.
The key is to treat your hair as if it is on the head of a "Tender-Headed" person.
But when even mild pressure is applied to certain points on the body that do not normally hurt, most of those areas are painfully tender in a person with fibromyalgia.
For Passover, which starts on April 12 this year, Simply Divine, a glatt kosher caterer, is selling prepared dishes like gefilte fish ($6.50 a person), tender brisket in a rich mushroom and wine sauce ($22 a person) and a dark chocolate cake with chocolate sauce ($40, to serve 10).
