On 12-03-2015 at approximately 1745 hours I Officer Hildebrand, Officer Patrick Sullivan and Sgt. Joseph Harris were dispatched to 630 N D St. for report of an assault in progress. While en route Dispatch notified me saying the male individual assaulting the victim was Kevin Meyer. I had dealt with Kevin Meyer earlier in my shift. While driving East on West Gallatin I spotted Kevin 's pickup headed West on Gallatin.…
We figured that my niece would have to see the error of her ways, get help, take classes, go to group therapy sessions, find a job and conquer her case plan. How long could that possibly take six months? The good news was that my sister who is the children’s Grandmother would be there to help us, getting the babies from daycare and coming home to help out while I juggled homework. We had it all planned out. My father, husband and I took turns taking my niece to her court dates and classes.…
Pa appeared to be clean, and was appropriately dressed in street clothes laying down on the bed when SC entered the apt. Pa's apartment was very small, clean but is a little cluttered. SC asked about the utilities and Mirvat reported that all are in working order, heating, electric, and cooling systems (the light and heat were on at the time of SC visit). Pa's that she has been sick the last four weeks.…
On March 28, 2016 I attended my first AA Meeting. Not really knowing what to expect, I found that everyone was nice and very welcoming. There were people from all walks of life, from adolescence to geriatrics. Although they were all very different, they all shared a commonality, to maintain sobriety. There were no membership fees or strict guidelines to join, no judgement being placed, there was only one simple rule, to have a desire to stop drinking.…
As a child growing up in Rhode Island, the smallest state in the Union, the idea of a vast planet brimming with civilization and culture was more like something out of a fairy tale than it was reality. So, when my father announced that we would be leaving the country to go to Scotland, the home of his and my ancestors, my world began to expand at a rapid pace. This trip could not have been timed more perfectly. The summer of 2007 marked the end of fourth grade, my first year at Saint Mary Academy Bay View.…
When I arrived DD was in bed asleep. I woke DD up to give DD her morning medication. DD woke up and ate breakfast and went back to sleep until 11:15 PM. DD asked to go to the library. DD and I visited wintergreen and went to the library.…
My first interaction with DSS was exciting. My first week there I witnessed a foster parent being cancelled out, which unfortunately resulted in having to separate two siblings that were in her care. Oddly enough this is what made me really like this profession. My first experience with Joanna was very professional, she explained what all I would be doing with in the agency and that we would have supervision times to discuss any concerns and questions. Joanna explained professional clothing, confidentiality, and told me about how I would be reading the policy book and writing a half page summary on each chapter to show my learning and understanding of the chapter and that she would discuss any questions I had on it.…
He told her that she was saying all of the things because she wanted “attention” and that they were all lies. My mom was so fed up, she missed work a couple times because of humiliation. But the employer decided to see through the tapes that were around the times that the car was being broken into and the purse getting stolen. Luckily, the cameras were working and recorded the whole incidents! Obviously, he felt bad and needed to apologize.…
Alexxis, After reading this summary, I think listening to this podcast would really benefit me! My grandmother that moved in with us about six months ago has Alzheimer's Disease. It's really challenging for her to keep up with her medications and we've found that recently she looks for every excuse to avoid going to the doctor even when she clearly knows she needs to. I think a big component of that is the fact that she recognizes she has trouble remembering things and it must be really discouraging for her. I think the point you made about having them write down main questions that need to be addressed would help her feel like she has some control and ensure she gets the answers she needs.…
Many years ago, roughly around the age of 12 I was diagnosed with ADD. I was having failing grades, no friends, even my teacher told my mother and I that I was the worst student she had ever had and that I would never amount to anything. In addition to this I had constant migraines. I think out of 181 days I missed 178 of them because I was at home lying of the floor, in tears, in the blacked out bath room, trying not to vomit everywhere.…
As a result, the producer used pathos to get the viewers feeling something. This ad appeals to emotion by pulling at my heart. This ad made me cry while watching it. I felt so motivated by the man’s motivation that I began to cry. If he could achieve his goal, what’s stopping me from mine: Nothing.…
Having the opportunity to be an intern at Preferred Family Healthcare has afforded me the opportunity to experience many things. The one that has struck me the most recently is the fact that I went into this knowing that I would be working with 6 people on the RCF using Motivational Interviewing. In the beginning I chose the six people with the assistance of staff and was very excited to begin working with them. The part that I didn't realize was the fact that I didn't take into account if they were as excited to work with me.…
Before 9th grade, I never thought about mental illness and how it affected me. I thought my heart beating out my chest from a simple social encounter happened to everyone. I was formally diagnosed last year with PTSD, Social anxiety, Generalized anxiety disorder, Panic disorder, a sprinkle of OCD, and severe depression. There’s a lot more but I haven’t had a definite answer.…
The more I read about LD the more I considered myself to had LD as a child and was never recognized for it. In Elementary School I always just got by with Cs but from what I can remember there was a lot of things I could not comprehend and ended up not doing. This leads me to believe that a lot of teachers just slid me through without a second look, wouldn’t even surprise me if the teachers knew I wasn’t capable of moving forward passed me anyways. If I were ever to work in a class room I would be sure to be 100% attentive and make sure I know the signs and symptoms of LD.…
The sickness that I live with is one that some would find excessively appalling, making it impossible to talk about; so I kept it to a whisper. This sickness I thought was to embarrassing to talk about, making it impossible to seek help, left me feeling alone in the dark. This sickness ruined friendships, without me realizing it. This sickness that made getting out of bed a struggle for me. This sickness made it impossible for me to see a positive future, until the day I stopped calling myself “crazy” and began to grow from what we all call, depression.…