Apply an ice pack to the injured joint if your dog will allow it. Do not apply ice directly to the skin. Use vet tape or an elastic bandage to hold a cold pack in place. For the first twenty-four hours, use cold therapy. For the next twenty-four, use a heating pad or warm pack.
Actor Charles Bronson dies at 81 Death Wish movie star Charles Bronson, the coal miner from Pennsylvania who drifted into films as a villain and became a hard-faced action star, has died. Bronson, 81, died of pneumonia at Cedars-Sinai Medical Centre in Los Angeles, with his wife at his bedside, publicist Lori Jonas said. He had been in the hospital for weeks.
There was no question, however, that Mr. Bronson had known hard times. He was born on Nov. 3, 1921, in the Scooptown section of Ehrenfeld, Pa., a coal-mining town. His real name was Charles Buchinsky, and he was the 11th of 15 children born to Lithuanian immigrants. He knew little about his father, who died when Mr. Bronson was 10. He knew abject poverty throughout his early years: his family was so poor that when he was 6 he was sent to school in a dress, a hand-me-down from an older sister. By the time he was 16 he was working in the coal mines, earning about $1 for each ton of coal he clawed out of the earth.