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Walker

1. Alice (Malsenior). born 1944, US writer: her works include In Love and Trouble: Stories of Black Women (1973) and the novels Meridian (1976), The Color Purple (1982), and Possessing the Secret of Joy (1992)
2. John. born 1952, New Zealand middle-distance runner, the first athlete to run one hundred sub-four-minute miles
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Lee said doctors told Ruby-Lea her leg could take up to 12 weeks to heal, and she will be spending the rest of her Easter holidays using a Zimmer frame.
On Saturday morning a zimmer frame was stolen from the back yard of a house in Ash Terrace, Tantobie.
Each subject performed one 6-min walk test at each visit, either unaided or with a Zimmer frame, rollator (wheeled frame) or gutter (high, wheeled) frame in random order.
This has been Tony Levy, on the front line reporting from the HQ of the 1st Battalion Queen's Own Zimmer Frame Repair Unit.
"I tried to use crutches to get around a bit after the break but, at just over 20 stones, it was impossible for me to support or lift myself, so I was given a Zimmer frame instead!" The final straw came when partner, Karl, offered to push Lucy around in a wheelchair.
The 85-year-old was walking with a zimmer frame when the tragedy happened.
A MAN who shouted racist abuse at a pensioner before throwing his Zimmer frame off a bus has been jailed for 16 weeks, according to the Crown Prosecution Service.
They're tyrannical and most of the time cause women to walk as if they need a loo or a Zimmer frame.
Resident Wendy Birkbeck, 64, has found the equipment so helpful she has already managed to ditch her Zimmer frame.
It is alleged a nurse lost her temper when asked to help an elderly patient get to the toilet on one of the wards and it is claimed she threw a Zimmer frame against the wall.
Zimmer criminals POLICE in Germany are hunting thieves who stole the wheels off an elderly woman's Zimmer frame.
Wearing a blue sweater, white shirt and black trousers, the pensioner walked into the dock helped by a zimmer frame.
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