After we had arrived the nurses escorted us up the delivery floor and had strapped my wife into a fetal monitor to check our baby’s status. I was so worried that something might be wrong, that our baby girl would be in trouble. As I sat there listening to my baby girl I knew I was in for the ride of my life. I watched, with a concerned look while the doctor had manually broken my wife’s water. I felt so worried and sad because I didn’t know what I could do to comfort my wife.
She was ushered into the house and strapped down to an operating table. A local anesthetic was given but it barely blunted the pain as the doctor performed the circumcision. Soraya was sent home an hour later. Soraya broke from her culture's confining bonds at the age of 18 by running away from an abusive arranged marriage. In Switzerland, she was put in a hospital emergency room with severe menstrual cramps because of the operation.
Eventually, I landed in a hospital bed with an IV pumping a cocktail of drugs meant to cure "a series of infections" ravaging my body. When I finally felt reasonable enough to go to class, I couldn't remember things. My essays, as one professor told me, suddenly "read like ramblings." I wasn't me. That semester, I ended up taking incompletes in all of my classes.
He wakes up two days later in a hospital with a broken jaw, punctured lung, ruptured spleen, and other injuries. Rahim Khan has left town, he leaves Amir a letter and his money in a safe deposit box. Rahim Khan also makes up the people Amir planned
When people are very sick and have to lay in bed for months without showing a bit of progress, as in the majority of the cancer cases, they are in agony.“The Doctor believed that life must be extended as long they have the means and knowledge to do it” (Huttmann 114). This was a very scientific method of thinking. Doctors did not consider the emotional impact of the disease on the patient and the family members. Physicians are supposed to know when a person can have a chance to recuperate from sickness. In Macs case, the Doctor did not get emotionally involved and chose to endlessly approve resuscitation efforts.
After months of testing and the doctors telling my mom I might have cancer, we finally got an answer. My diagnosis was called Chronic Recurrent Multifocal Osteomyelitis (pediatrics 2005). This disease is something that is very rare childhood disease. After multiple surgeries, lots of medication and a whole year spent living at the hospital things had started to quiet down. Throughout all of this, I met so many compassionate nurses, doctors with great bedside manner and even laundry and maintenance people who would stop and say hi.
After two weeks in the hospital, Kate developed an infection that placed her in a coma on a respirator, which is “saving” her for the time being. Another part of this chapter that I found extremely interesting was the reaction of Anna when, after much argument about hockey camp, Sara said, “Anna, don’t make me do this” (269). Anna hotly responds, “Do what, Mom? I don’t make you do anything,” (269) hinting on how, throughout her
Entering the room, laying down on my back, with all the faces staring at me; I was so scared. One of the doctors said, “Just relax.” They gave me a shot in my arm; I felt this painful rush up my arm. Then they put a mask on my face. “You’re going to be fine,” one of the doctors said. Forcefully my eyes began to close; I tried to fight it; I felt like I was dying.
For one week prior to her hospital admission she reports being bed bound and “couldn’t even get up to use the restroom”. She stated that at first she was able to get out of bed and use a bucket placed beside the bed as a bedside commode; however, for at least two days before coming to the hospital she could not get up and was urinating in the bed. The primary admitting diagnosis was intractable back pain. Patient also presented with Ambulatory Dysfunction and a Urinary Tract Infection (UTI). Patient stated that she has suffered from numerous health issues arising after age 12 and attributes them to an accident she had in which a horse “sat on her and rolled twice”.
They had given me tons of pain medication at this point so I couldn’t feel a thing. Just as she’s finished explaining a doctor walks in and asks if he could talk to her for a moment. I took those few moments to look at my current state, me, a mindless 7 year old had gone from crazy monkey creature to unable to walk for at least 7 weeks. We got home a day later; the hospital had given me a wheelchair I could use until I could walk again. It was one of those wheelchairs that you had to roll with your hand.