parents were worried that I wouldn’t be able to live a normal life, but thanks to the help from doctors I am. I’ve been able to do everything everyone else does. Bilateral club feet causes the feet to point down and in towards each other which makes it impossible to walk. When I was six days old the doctors put me in casts to help move my feet into a normal position. My parents would bring me to the doctor every week to have them recast me and stretch out my achilles tendon The process was very…
seventh grade I started to do competitive swimming and I loved it. Until I started to figure out that there was something wrong with my knees and it was not runners’ knees. As I swam and walked I could feel my knees popping and snapping. I went to a doctor and we did every nonsurgical option there was to try and make this problem go away but nothing would work. Eight days before my eighth grade graduation I had double knee surgery. It turns out that there were bands wrapped around my knee caps…
that saddens me the most being that people become afraid of going to the doctor and having excuses saying that they are okay but they should hark their ears and listen to the people who care about their health or behavior. A perfect example would be that my mother became diagnosed with cervical cancer this month but it…
other hand in some ways I was just like them, an idiot because I should have known. After about two minutes of torment I was rushed to the hospital, and fantasized over the emergency vehicle as I was pulled onto a concentrated gurney. As the amiable doctor with swift hands put pins needles in me, I lay there without a salty tear running down my face creating a stream of water. Without a hasty movement I lay there with all of my senses going numb, yet I was alive or at least I think I was.…
ok. I got up and felt straight back to the ground. I had busted my knee and couldn’t get up, so Devin and Tj carried me inside. Mama came dashing over and was asking what had happened. So we had told her and they took me to the hospital. The doctors called me to the back and numbed my knee with this huge needle. I was…
victims coughed up was collected for examination. For many days the twins were photographed so the doctors could investigate their hair patterns. They were forced into many uncomfortable positions for these photos such as holding their arms up for hours. Following this they were sent to another barrack to sit in hot water until they were ready to pass out. Next they were strapped down to a table so the doctors could pluck out their hair in order to…
or Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome or POTS, she has many names; sometimes I call her “Hell”. The first year, when I did not know her name, was the most challenging. I had headaches and episodes of what my mom called “auroras” every day. Doctor after…
"The Theater of the Damned: Religion and the Audience in the Tragedy of Christopher Marlowe." Texas Studies in Literature and Language 54.1 (2012): 80. Web. 31 Oct. 2016. Anderson discusses in “The Theater of the Damned” the concept of religion in Doctor Faustus. Anderson discusses why the audience would pay to see characters of a play brought to such low points throughout the duration of the story. Anderson explains how the viewers of a play in the time the play was written, along with…
year later the doctors discovered another Tumor. So what happened was when the doctors removed the brain tumor the tentacles was still on her brain and It started to grow another tumor.Tracy started to get sicker and sicker as the tumor was affecting her brain.So then she became paralyzed she couldnt move on her own it was like she was here,but she wasn't. Shemecca prayed everyday for her to get better . She visited her home every day and helped out to take care of her.The doctors said she…
We had to go see a doctor in Tampa right next to the University of South Florida. My first visit they took blood and I had to pee in a cup to see exactly how bad my kidney disease was. I remember my doctor telling me exactly that if we did not catch my kidney disease this early something serious could have happened and I could have had to get surgery. The doctor also had to do a physical test to see what areas of my body was swollen and what…