My friend lifted up her shirt, showed her a bright red (not pink) belly, and told her mother she had been calling and informing the doctor's office for days. They simply told her it was normal to have pain, not to worry, and they could not fit her in for an appointment until the following week. From the site of my friends stomach, her mother rushed her to the emergency room in horror. What my friend had was a horrible disease called necrotizing fasciitis and it had spread through parts of her body like wild fire. So I began investigating and found that she was not the only one.
Pausch in the non-fiction, The Last Lecture, explains to us how to live our lives more enjoyable. Pausch supports his theories by describing his experiences in his life. His purpose to do this is he wants to see people live a more productive and fun life in order for this world to reach its full potentials. The author writes an informal tone for the people that are struggling with any goals or just life in general. Pausch explains how to get through obstacles in life and to just live life because you never know what could happen.
Along with previous scenario stated, let’s review another case: A phlebotomist from a contracted lab begins his daily rounds of blood collections for the day in a long term care facility. He enters room 201 to draw a 85-year-old woman who was admitted for atrial fibrillation. When he introduces himself and asks for consent to draw her blood, she shouts, "No!" and asks you to leave and not come back. The patient made it very clear that she did not want the phlebotomist to draw her blood (Finnegan, 2013).This same phlebotomist has drawn her for several days for a Prothrombin Time (PT) and Activated Thromboplastic Time (aPTT) without incident, so he reports this situation to the nurse.
A young mother is in intensive care after having a rare but serious reaction to a friend's prescription antibiotics that caused her to "burn" from the inside out. Yassmeen Castanada, 19, wasn't feeling well on Thanksgiving, so she took a pill that her friend had left over from a previous illness. Soon, Castanada's eyes, nose and throat began to burn, and she was rushed to the emergency room, her mother, Laura Corona, told ABC News. Her body erupted in blisters over the next few days, Corona said. She had to be sedated and placed on a ventilator.
Novalee dreams of houses, and love, and family. She makes her dreams come true because she works at them, and she had a wonderful support system to help her along the way. Willy Jack however, schemed his way to achieve his dream. Instead of having a family to rely on, he relied on himself, and when he thought he could get something better then what he had he tried to take even if it wasn’t necessarily the best thing to do. His wrong decisions affected his life, and changed the outcome of his future.
Anne Frank underwent a life changing twenty five months of hiding during her teenage years with her family and friends due to the overthrowing Nazi party in Germany . During these years feelings of fear, faith, and courage overwhelmed her but brought her through experiences that she documented, this has educated millions of people about the Holocaust. All aspects of life during hiding including what she struggled with, learned from, and thought about was captured in the pages of her diary. When Anne and her family are first sent into hiding, she has a very optimistic outlook on life. She is always thinking about how much worse it could be and how lucky she is to have what she is given and still have the comfort of her family.
Gilgamesh never thought about how hard his people had it, and he would have continued to think that they had it easier than they really did. He would have never figured it out unless he had the experience, which he did thanks to Enkidu. In the end, Enkidu really changed Gilgamesh’s perspective on the world and they way things are when you’re not being waited on all the time. Enkidu made Gilgamesh realize that he had to help others out and can’t just be helped. He made him know what it was like to have a loving friend, and the devastation of loosing one.
Attention Material: It was in late July 2011, on a Saturday night when I received a phone call at work. It was a nurse from St.Marys emergency room informing me, my older sister was there and needed me to come as soon as possibile. After arriving at the hospital I spoke with my sisters nurse and she informed me that my sister was with her friends and smoked K2 for the first time and had multiple seizures and was unresponsive. After spending the night in the hospital the drug wore off and she came around. She describes her encounter with this drug life changing.
The mom stated that one year ago her daughter was able to write her name, however, now the 7 year old girl can no longer write her name. The little girl with epilepsy has trouble communicating and playing with friends her age. The doctors told the family that they believe the only thing that will truly help her is medical marijuana. Although a poll shows that a large majority of Philadelphians support medical marijuana they are dragging their feet.
But most of the homeless persons were appreciative and was thankful, but of those that was thankful they had some that felt like it wasn’t enough and complained. Some of which were not really trying to find anything to do better. By the end we finished were we started me and Josh sat down and talked and I asked him where he saw his self in the future. He stated that he wanted to be successful he just didn’t know how it was going to be done because of his past. He had dreams and goals that he wanted achieve but in his situation it made it a little more