Living with MS (multiple sclerosis) became one of her greatest challenges. “Fighting it is a waste of precious energy”, she said in an online posting to the National Multiple Sclerosis Society’s web site. “It is only by embracing my MS that I learn life’s greatest lessons.” Adding yet another personal victory to her repertoire, she recently rejoined the speaking circuit after taking a hiatus due to failing eyesight. For an expert lip-reader, low vision is like going deaf all over again. It also meant she couldn’t drive, and had to use a wheelchair because her balance deteriorated.
“For though I'm small, I know many things, and my body is an endless eye through which, unfortunately, I see everything.”- Gloria Fuertes We are born learning. Those lessons learned in one’s youth are the most difficult and the most influential. In Jesmyn Ward’s novel, Salvage the Bones, Ward illustrates that wisdom does not necessarily come with age. The mistakes that Esch makes leaves her vulnerable to disappointment and suffering at a time in her life when she should be enjoying no responsibilities and not having to make life altering decisions. Although Esch eventually achieves wisdom after the hurricane, she pays a substantial price for having lived her life blindly.
For example my grandmother has diabetes and she sometimes lies about how she feel. My grandmother lie and says that she is ok with being a diabetic and that she does not feel no pain when her sugar goes up. My grandmother later went into a stroke because she was so stress and she really did not like being a diabetic because she sometimes misses the desserts she use to eat. When a person does not tell the truth that means that they are holding in their true emotions, which can cause stress and can kill people but if they are honest about their situation and vent it can help decrease high blood pressure which has a high death
When Dorothea was 7 years old she was seriously affected by polio that led to have a permanent limp, and having a lonely childhood. Her dad left her and her mother and he vanished from their lives and she never saw him again. Her real name was not Dorothea Lange but it was really Dorothea Nutzhorn she change it because she wanted a new beginning. She marry two times the first was Maynard Dixon but she divorced him then she married Paul Schuster Taylor. What you may not know about Lange is that she the one that took the most famous photographs about the Great Depression.
Charleena decides to step in and help her with the reading and soon they have a very nice bond with each other. So one day when she is very sick Mr. Stan her assistant calls her and Miss. Charleena does not want to talk to him at all and take any offers he has for her, but after a few day Foster tries to persuade her into going back into her Hollywood life and trying her best in what she does and so one day she calls him back and says she is ready to do the job and soon she gets back up and rises in her career because of the positive support Foster gave her and Foster learned how to
For example, in this passage we understand that Norah is struggling with the grief of her lost daughter and doesn't want to let go of her memory, "Phoebe she would keep alive in her heart." (88) It helps us understand the reasoning behind her actions of drunk driving, dreams of lost things, and escalated emotion at random as well as other actions the character demonstrates through out the novel. The deception of her daughter effects Norah and explains why she bought the camera,"...So he'd capture every moment, so he'd never forget. "(88) Norah doesn't want her husband, sister and not even neighbours to dismiss her daughter as unimportant. Norah's great pain because of the "death" of her child causes her to be scared of change, she wishes she could capture a happy moment, and stay in that moment-perhaps forever. "
141007 R41 John Recabar Profile of a depressed Anna I was depressed earlier this year. Coming from a family that has a history with mental disorder - my sister’s bipolar - it didn’t come as a shock for me to be plagued by the same mental warfare that my sister underwent. My experience with depression was a brief one, having experienced it for only a lengthy week. Anna however, has been battling clinical depression for almost eight years now. Anna has been battling depression since she was ten, although she was only professionally diagnosed when she was a mere fifteen year old.
She loves to listen to music, sit in on the grown-ups conversation and be where the action is. Billy Jean is first saw as having very poor eye sight. However this young lady is still determined to fight and live like anyone else, without asking for special treatment or like a baby. However, through the story we find out that Billy Jean is legally blind and will never see again. After telling her parents, the decision is made to send Billy Jean away to a special school where she can learn how to read and write.
She is eighty-four years old and along with other health issues, the dementia has become a major concern. When our family first noticed she was becoming more and more forgetful, we did not think that much about it. Then we saw that she she was forgetting to take her medication and forgetting where her car was parked. My aunts decided that it was not safe for her or for others on the road for her to be driving. As time passed, we noticed she was having difficulties in other areas as well.
You may wish to use the poem ‘Look Closer’ to assist with stimulating discussion about attitudes and behaviours (also available as a DVD – ‘What do you See’) An example of part of a case study could be: Case Study 1 Jacintha is 91 and has dementia with Lewy Bodies. She remains fairly independent, although needs some assistance with bathing, due to her reduced mobility. She should use a walking stick when walking around the home, but sometimes forgets. Her husband has passed away, but her two daughters visit on a weekly basis, although they become frustrated when mum keeps repeating herself in conversation and spare no feelings when telling her that she has already said that!! (To be continued) Case Study 2 Patrick is 47 and has Alzheimer’s disease.