Doctors often have no idea whether a patient with severe arthritis must climb stairs when she returns home.
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Rich says she still can't climb stairs easily and spends 23 hours a day in a special hospital bed.
Another American group, the National Institute on Ageing, reckons that many octogenarians can climb stairs, go for a walk and do their shopping.
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He renovated his home with the pigs in mind, putting their beds and food on the first floor (their legs are too stubby to climb stairs) and installing special flooring that holds up to hooves.
Every week after Mass I would climb the stairs to watch our organist play the postlude.
Retribution could be theirs at any time they chose if they saw me climb the stairs to the garage attic.
These household and household-ish names climb the stairs and take a very public leap, sometimes landing gracefully, or at least belly-flopping for audience amusement.
You go room to room through these chambers and if you choose and can climb steep stairs, ascend to the also recently opened and still private area, the third floor, 115 feet up.
We climb the winding stairs, past a sleek black entryway sculpture of dancing partners jutting up nearly three stories from a ground-floor fountain, and enter a parlor clad completely in copper, the metallurgical complement to the ballroom.
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My grannie said it was just silly to climb up all the stairs, he would have no breath.
If all goes well, Vawter will climb 103 flights of stairs to the top of the Tower in about one hour.
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The best analogy I can think of is watching your toddler struggle to crawl up stairs or climb onto the couch.
Nine out of ten could stand, walk, and climb at least a few stairs independently by the time of discharge.
We climb up several flights of stairs at the office.
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It struck me that before I could reach the oval mirror in the upstairs hall, I had to pass through the front hall, cross the dusky living room with its sagging couch, walk the length of the kitchen, and climb two sets of creaking stairs, the long one up to the landing and the short one up to the hall.
All Rivera sees are stairs, and a long climb back, to the top of the game.
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We had to make the final climb to the hilltop church on our own, but it was early in the day and steep stairs and cobblestones were still exciting.
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