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It was a way for me to pull my life back together; it was also thera- py for me, but I didn't know it at the time. I thought I would just stay a couple weeks and catch my breath, but I ended up stay- ing for five of the six months they allow." By the time she left, Mrs. Adams had gone from victim to volunteer and was feeling good about herself again. She was able to get a job, find a place to live and get back on her feet. "Sometimes when your back is against the wall, you have to take dramatic risks," she says. "I wouldn't necessarily recom- mend it to anyone, but for me it was quite healing." D When does ordinary depres- sion — the kind everyone struggles with from time to time -- turn into something more serious? Its often a matter of degree and duration, the experts say. But when symptoms persist for more than two weeks, it may be time to consult a physician or mental-health care professional. Here's a list of what to look for • Prolonged feelings of sad- ness, helplessness and gloom. • Difficulty sleeping. • Retreating from relation- ships with others. • Poor appetite and weight loss. • Radical and/or abrupt mood changes. • Trmbility to enjoy former- ly pleasurable activities, in- cluding sex. • Trouble concentrating and remembering things. • Sense of apathy, a feeling that life is meaningless. • Acute anxiety and/or irri- tabilit-y. • Persistent self-reproach or inappropriate guilt. • Marked loss of energy. • Lack of response to envi- ronment changes (day/night, s-im/rain, work/leisure). 0 Swelling Leg Could Be Sign Of Thrombosis MARSHALL FRANKLIN SPEC AL TO THE JEW SH NEWS M y wife's parents retired in the 1970s. They sold their home in New Jer- sey and lived on the road in a 30-foot motor home. They went everywhere and saw everything, traveling this coun- try's length and breadth for two years. To this day, my 85-year-old mother-in-law says that was the happiest time of her entire life. When they finallyreturn.ed to the East Coast, they visited us in Connecticut. My father-in-law had been a bandmaster and a professional master of cere- monies. He could tell a story. with the best of them, and he spun the legends of their travels with great enjoyment. On the second day of his vis- it with us he wore shorts, and I noticed that his left leg was swollen. He told me the swelling had started a couple of weeks be- Dr. Marshall Franklin is a San Diego-based cardiologist who writes for Copley News Service. fore, but because it wasn't painful and because he could walk all right, he did nothing about it. I shifted into my doctor mode and questioned him further. My mother-in-law told us that once they had seen a few sights in one place, he was back in the motor home and off to see what might lie on the road ahead. It was not unusual for him to stay behind the wheel for several hours with- out stopping for a rest or to walk around. As their travels turned east, toward home, my father-in-law became more impatient and spent more time on the road. That was when his leg began to swell. My mother-in-law told us about a couple of spells my fa- ther-in-law had. She said he be- came short of breath rather suddenly on a couple of occasions without anything apparently causing it. On one such occasion he complained of some mid-chest pressure and nearly fainted.