Deaf Like Me Book Review Deaf Like Me follows the lives of two parents, Thomas and Louise Spradley, and the struggles they encounter with their family. Thomas and Louise live an average life and have a son named Bruce, who one summer becomes ill with German measles, or rubella. The real story begins though when a few days prior to Bruce becoming sick Louise learns that she is pregnant. This is where the real story starts, as the doctor informs Thomas and Louise that if she contracted rubella while pregnant it may lead to birth defects in the baby, so for the next nine months Thomas and Louise worry about what is to become of their new baby. When the baby is born they name her Lynn, at first sight Lynn appears to be a perfectly normal and healthy baby, there are no signs that any sort of deformities either physical or mental are present.
Adrianne Scott Cwv-101 06/14/2015 Valerie De La Torre Benchmark assignment: ethical dilemma Sarah and her husband has been trying to have their first born for 5 years to discover their growing baby has tested positive for tay-sachs disease and down syndrome. Getting the heartbreaking news she started to think about abortion and rather or not it was the right thing to do to go forward with her pregnancy. Sarah and her husband has been trying to conceive for a very long time and there trying has turned into her finally getting her wish. Sarah thought if she aborted her child it would save her child from coming into this sinful world full of hate, pain, hurt and spare her child of suffering. Sarah contacted a close friend of hers to name Diana blue who is a pediatrician and is and atheist to receive some advice on her situation.
The link between the baby’s present condition and the three-year-old sisters is that, the three year old might have transferred the virus to the six month old through touch, coughing or sneezing. As it is with shingles the virus was dormant for four month till the time that their mother noted the blister like lesions on the babies back (page17). 4.The baby did not have symptomatic illness when his sister was experiencing it because at the time, the baby was being breast fed by the mother. This means the baby was getting natural antibiotics from his mother through the breast milk. Two moths after the cessation of breast-feeding, the baby did not have that protection anymore.
Because Arabella is now in the Fetus stage rapid changes were occurring throughout the following months Arabella mother felt her move for the first time at four months and it would feel like a punch and kick inside her mother’s stomach. The brain also becomes increasingly sophisticated during this stage, so now Arabellas brain can send messages to her body. Arabella can now also hear sound, her mother talks to her and lets her know that she can’t wait for her arrival. By the eighth month Arabellas mothers body was very tired and ready, Arabella is not 7 ½ lbs. (Feldman, 2001 p. 54) Arabella was full term, fully developed, and ready for birth, her mother’s body released the protein CRH which started the process of birth.
The book is an autobiography of his life with quotes and references from other books and materials about deaf culture. He uses this book to describe his life, his own personal experiences in the deaf community, and the challenges of being a deaf person in a hearing society. Jacobs uses other authors to help get points across, like how there are different degrees of deafness, the specific laws that apply to deaf people, as well as defining what it means to be deaf. There are many things that a deaf person must face in a daily basis that many people would never
You enter the room and greet the mother. A toddler girl is leaning over to play with the baby in his carrier on the floor. The baby is giggling and appears health. You notice on the chart that the baby was breast-fed from birth through his fourth month. Mom explains that the spots on the baby’s back just popped up two days ago and that the baby hasn’t had a fever and seems well.
Wilma Glodean Rudolph was born prematurely at 4.5 pounds (2.0 kg), the 20th of 22 siblings from two marriages;[4][3] her father Ed was a railway porter and her mother Blanche a maid. [9] Rudolph contracted infantile paralysis (caused by the polio virus) at age four. She recovered, but wore a brace on her left leg and foot (which had become twisted as a result) until she was nine. She was required to wear an orthopaedic shoe for support of her foot for another two years. Her family traveled regularly from Clarksville, Tennessee, to Meharry Hospital (now Nashville General Hospital at Meharry) in Nashville, Tennessee for treatments for her twisted leg.
She is very persistent. She keeps her word till then end. Celia tries to have kids. In May of 1963, she has a miscarriage and we find out that it’s her fourth. “He doesn’t know about this one or the one before.” Celia talking to Minny in the bathroom, after having a miscarriage.
The video does a great job of explaining all the ways and situations it is seen. The one that shocked me the most was about families of those who are deaf. I just don’t understand how you wouldn’t want to learn sign to better your relationship with your family. The older gentleman that told the story about his mother and how he will never know what her last words were was inspiration enough for
I look at him with huge smile on my face saying “thank you Lord for this wonderful blessing and there is nothing wrong with me”. My eyes began to water and I hug my doctor and say thank you. I asked my doctor “why did all of my pregnancy test come back negative?” She giggles and says “Erika I can’t say right now but you’re mystery women.” Three months later and 28 hours of hard labor I had to giving birth by Caesarean section to a beautiful and healthy 7 pound 4 ounces and 20 inches long healthy baby boy Christopher. Giving life to someone is such a wonderful gift and a