She started to feel like she was “sinking into the ground” and “the floor was rising up to her face.” The whole room’s spatial position seemed to change constantly. She went to the doctor, and was told that her condition was “essentially normal” by several specialists. She started to feel like she was going to die soon, and although wasn’t scared of death, she wanted to live her life to the fullest. She went to the theatre with her husband more often, developed a new response to music, and spent hours listening to the “inner structure” of the lyrics and instruments in music.…
Even though, she had many thoughts about it. She still cared for them and did her best for them. Also while doing that, she found herself back to doing what she loved and not being sick all the time. Sometimes in life, no one can tell you what to do or how you should feel because your mind and body will eventually find its own way back to…
At the age of three my mother was diagnosed with stage two of Adenocarcinoma cancer, and ventricular septal defect. At first i didn 't understand because i was a mere child but later on when i started school i began to realize that not only was my mother running low on time but also i was slowly becoming lost and confused of what was going on around…
Last week she had lost her sight. Yesterday her neck muscles gave way and the nurses were obliged to restrain her in the wheelchair. Today she sat trancelike, her left-eye seeping, her skeletal body unusually…
What is dementia? Dementia is an illness or disease of the brain that includes memory loss and leads an individual to experience difficulties with thinking, problem solving and language. In the beginning the changes will be small and gradually become severe enough to affect an individual’s daily life.…
A family friend had a stroke and half his body is paralyzed. My dad lost his job. My mom battles with depression. My brother was raped. My sister was raped.…
While a person could live for a long period of time, it is unavoidable to have changes. Ever since I was young my mother would take me to visit my grandmother during weekends and I enjoyed every moment of it. My grandmother used to buy me pizza and spaghetti for dinner and take me to play in a park nearby her house, I surely love my grandmother. However back then I couldn’t help but notice her painful face whenever she’d sit down or pick up a pencil, she would even take really long to walk up the stairs and sometimes she would also say that her legs hurt a lot after the walk. She used to tell me how she could walk to the shop across town with not a single problem, but now she couldn’t even go up the stairs without help.…
There was hope that she would beat the sickening leech on her brain. Our family rejoiced in the fact that we had the chance of having her a little bit longer. But all of a sudden, her conditions worsened and the world became gray again. My aunt was a “vegetable” per say, she wouldn’t move, talk, or eat on her own. It was then that I realized, I had to go because I didn’t know how much time there I had left to see my favorite aunt.…
In The Disembodied Lady, Christina’s case was a unique case where she lost her entire sense of proprioception. Christine was only twenty-seven years old and lived an active and full life. Christina was to undergo gallbladder surgery and was placed on routine pre-op antibiotics. The day of surgery Christina knew something terrible happened, she felt disembodied. After undergoing multiple tests, it was determined that she was suffering from neuritis unsure if it would ever get better.…
This is hard for me to say, but I've had a hard time talking, or thinking about it. The death of my family, everyone is dead but me. It happened once we passed Soda Springs, that's when the kids got sick. My wife, Jane stayed in the wagon with them the whole time, while I was busy with the animals and the wagon. The day after the kids got it, was the day my wife got it, I was going to spend everyday with them, but Jane told me to leave them behind, since I never received the disease.…
Imagine having to watch the person who made you who you are today become sick. This is what I had to go through at a young age. My mother was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis or MS. Multiple Sclerosis is when your immune system attacks the central nervous system. At thirteen I had to try to understand what was happening to her body, cope with something I had no control over, and attempt to deal with the uncertainty of my mothers’ future.…
Her condition was stable but I felt she just needed support in her sickness status. I asked her several times while changing her brief if she is having pain, but she only smiled. By the third night, she was feeling much better, yet I stayed with her in the room, so whenever she opened her eyes she can find me there. I turned the TV soft music channel on, and made sure she knows she is not alone in her room.…
Growing up as a young girl, I was very fortunate to have a family that spent their lives together, and always had a strong sense of unity. It was typical for my mother and me to spend numerous hours at my grandparent’s house, enjoying their company and making memories that will last a lifetime. My mother had been partially raised by her grandparent’s during her childhood, so she always emphasized how important it is to treasure your elders and spend all the time you can with them while you have it. This was essential to our family, as we are burdened knowing that our loved one’s will one day no longer be the same person they once were. Our family has a long history of the tragic disease known as Alzheimer’s.…
My Granddad was never ill and seeing him become weaker was shocking. When my mum told me what happened, the flood of memories rushed through my head and…
Nothing will ever meet the horrors of what happened to my family and I on the first morning of winter. It had literally put fear into our minds, and never did I think I would be sane again. Before this tragedy however, my family was in a blessed situation. Despite the struggles in the beginning of our lives, we had it fairly easy. My family consisted of me, my momma, and my little brother and sister.…