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It’s like your power goes off in your house and you have a backup generator, but your backup generator isn’t working so well, we see the disease manifest at moments when Henry’s tank is running low. It could be when he’s too hot, tired from climbing upstairs, or he’s hungry or his brain was working too hard during therapy.

Mary Saladino

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I see heart patients that come in with terrible histories, multiple myocardial infarction, sometimes bypass surgery, many stents and they say, ‘Doctor, I’ve tried multiple statins, but whenever I take a statin, my muscles hurt, or they’re weak. I can’t walk upstairs. I just can’t tolerate these drugs,’ we do need alternatives for these patients.

Steven Nissen

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Every day, our emergency room has a backlog of anywhere between 25 and 100 patients waiting for a bed upstairs. So if today, that number was 25, and two weeks ago, it was 100 – yes, that’s better, but there’s still a long line, maybe the patients aren’t piled like sardines in the ER as much when you only have 35 patients waiting compared to 75. But it’s still not great.

Melissa Mattison

Found on CNN
1 year ago

And then I'm like,' We're upstairs -- this shouldn't be facing down.' So we point it towards the bar and face it up in the air.

Kevin Holland

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I grab the gun with the guy, we face( the gun) down towards the ground, and then I'm like,' We're upstairs -- this shouldn't be facing down.' So we point it towards the bar and face it up in the air.

Kevin Holland

Found on CNN
2 years ago

When they said I couldn’t go upstairs to see STARRY STARYY NIGHT EVER AGAIN I lost it.

Gary Cabana

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

She asked me to come over. She asked me to bring some wine. We had wine and sushi and a couple of hours later, we were upstairs in their theater room watching a movie, for years I have struggled with stress and anxiety and insomnia. I took the bar exam on two hours of sleep.I mean, this is how far this goes back for me. And she knows that. And she gave me a medication I had never taken before. And I had an adverse reaction. Instead of helping me sleep, I hallucinated. And I don’t remember anything until I woke up or came to, and I was throwing up in a hamper.

Abby Broyles

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I went upstairs, and I told my wife, ‘We’re leaving now! This city is done!’.

Brian Cassanego

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

It was just a normal night, i went upstairs and knocked on her door and there was no response and I just knew, I knew something was terribly wrong.

San Tan Valley

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

When I had it she was actually going through chemo at the time and so I had to stay all the way upstairs, completely away from her, and then I thought, you know, if I got it again, I don't even want to risk that.

Ellyn Norris

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Um, I just massacred my while family, the gun is still upstairs with the bodies. … I just killed my whole family with my Mossberg.

Marcus Stokes

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

Every five minutes it was one of the charities or a friend sending flowers so I'd have to run downstairs, open the door, take the flowers, bring them back in and upstairs, and then the doorbell would go again.

Andy Stenning/Mirrorpix/Getty Images -RRB- McGrady

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

Physically they are all different and are going to provide a different style of racing and a different style of entertainment, the town does have a lot of energy. When we were there doing the burnout on the boulevard, I was upstairs in one of those buildings looking out the window watching and it was clear as day that this was a great relationship and a great partnership.

Dale Earnhardt

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

It was brief, but Franklin Roosevelt turned Blue Room into Franklin Roosevelt office for meetings, and used the Yellow Oval upstairs in the Executive Residence for Franklin Roosevelt private office.

Matthew Costello

Found on CNN
3 years ago

I’ve shared the medical records withtwo psychiatrists and three psych nurses, they all said there’s no proof at all that she was psychotic. She never showed any symptoms of it and nobody ever suspected of it. And if you look at her version of what happened that night, they were arguing, he was abusive and she went into a psychotic state and pulled the trigger. The problem is that they were upstairs and his guns were downstairs. He had a number of weapons because he was a former police officer.

Dorothy Marcic

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

I was given that alternative -- stay in White House, lock yourself in, don't ever leave. Don't even go to the Oval Office. Just stay upstairs and enjoy it. Don't see people, don't talk to people and just be done with it. And I can't do that. I had to be out front and United States is United States, United States is the United States.

Eric Trump

Found on CNN
4 years ago

I had no choice because I just didnt want to stay in the White House. I was given that alternative -- stay in the White House, lock yourself in, dont ever leave, dont even go to the Oval Office, just stay upstairs and enjoy it, dont see people, dont talk to people, and just be done with it --and I cant do that. I had to be out front, and this is America, this is the United States.This is the greatest country in the world, this is the most powerful country in the world, I cant be locked up in a room upstairs and totally safe and just say, hey, whatever happens happens, I cant do that.

Chris Christie

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

When I was upstairs in ICU fighting for my life, my mum was in a ward downstairs, basically passing away.

Sharlene Miller

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

Black Lives Matter protesters arrived at my house shortly after 5 am while I was upstairs.

Jackie Lacey

Found on CNN
4 years ago

I went to the lobby of the hotel, received the order. It was completely sealed and packaged. I got upstairs and we began to eat our food, and my husband was eating his fettuccine alfredo, and he took a bite and he thought it was hard chicken or some overcooked cheese and come to find out, it was a latex glove that had been melted into the food.

Laurie Graham

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

I'd left my clippers on charge upstairs and the boys obviously found them, they both came down and they were laughing so much. I looked over and saw this massive bald patch on top of George's head.

Kevin Moore

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

I kind of pushed her down and got past her and got upstairs. My son was up in his bed with the covers over him. The window blew out and flew into the side of his bed, if he didnt have a bunk bed I dont know where it would have landed on him. But that probably saved him.

Jeff Nguyen

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

He didnt understand the magnitude, he hung up and went upstairs to do his homework.

Christy Taylor

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

I'm a local, i have a kayak, two dogs that both have life vests, and I live in an upstairs apartment, so if anything happens, we're good.

Jessica Awad

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

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