On 2/25/2016, CM met with the client to complete Bi-Weekly ILP Review. Client was was alert, satisfactorily groomed, and casually dressed. She was cooperative and appropriate in the meeting. She didn’t made eye contact. Client reported she is happy because she met a new acquaintance and they went out for breakfast this morning.…
There is a member of the women’s soccer team that has an undiagnosed exercised induced disease. She has been to a vast amount of doctors and the only thing they have been able to do is to rule out seizures. Although, seizures may have been rules out she still presents with very seizure-like symptoms when it happens. She starts by losing cognitive function and no one is able to get her to respond to his or her attempts at getting her attention. She also has a tendency during this stage to start hitting her legs, in the belief that this somehow will help or just a twitch that comes with the episode.…
Jackson was a five year old Caucasian male that arrived to the emergency department 3 minutes after experiencing a tonic-clonic seizure. During the first experience, I felt like I did not do enough nursing interventions. I identified the patient/family and received legal consent. I performed an assessment and documented vitals. During the seizure I placed the patient on his side and he was placed on a nonrebreather mask.…
K Kaci has Epilepsy which means 100 seizures a day. So, she is almost paralyzed. Kaci’s parents should have allowed her to have the surgery because she wouldn’t have seizures anymore. We know that she’d have up to 100 seizures a day. Also, she reached things in the air that weren’t there.…
During middle of adolescent period, I grew up watching my father with alcohol addiction and unstable relationship with his now ex-wife. Due to those experiences, I became distant with my family. I recall coming home from school locking myself up in my room. I…
When you start getting quoted for auto insurance in Maitland, it's important to know the factors used by insurance companies. Several medical conditions could affect your premiums in a negative way. By knowing about them, you can counteract the cost of insurance in other ways. Diabetes If you have diabetes, you run the risk of having hypoglycemic episodes.…
Epilepsy and the Oral Cavity Epilepsy is a central nervous system disorder (neurological disorder) in which nerve cell activity in the brain becomes disrupted, causing seizures or periods of unusual behavior, sensations and sometimes loss of consciousness (MayoClinic). Diagnosis of epilepsy is not an easy task as it comes in many forms and can range anywhere from a blank stare to full body convulsions, but once it is diagnosed, epilepsy can often be treated with medication and the patient can live a normal life. One thing that must be noted is that these medications can have side effects that are detrimental to the oral cavity.…
Kirsten Jones Ms. Scannell English III March 3, 2017 Controversy in Epileptic Medication Around five percent of epileptics are sensitive to lights that flicker. For example, strobe lights or a change in light can be a trigger for seizures. Although the medications given for epilepsy are to help minimize the seizures, there are other treatment options. Those other treatments may include a ketogenic diet, surgery in the brain, and even medical marijuana. Epileptic seizures can happen anytime, any place, and because of anything that triggers the brain sensors.…
My life has been full of difficulties and problems that I have had to deal with, and ultimately, overcome. When I was younger, I was diagnosed with High-functioning Autism and ADHD and it has impacted my life to this day. I also had severe anger issues growing up which made it hard for my siblings to have their friends over. Every day is a new challenge that I have to deal with. My Autism and ADHD has really defined my life as it changes how I react to my peers, bosses, and faculty.…
Eleanor Roosevelt once said, “I am who I am today because of the choices I made yesterday”. I chose to learn from my mother’s Epilepsy instead of letting her disease affect my life negatively. I chose who my first love would be and how he would alter my personality as I matured. I chose to take my experiences in life, the good and the bad, and make the best of it. The photograph I selected depicts the most influential people in my life: my mother, my boyfriend, and myself.…
Who you are doesn’t really influence it does it. find people like you-happiness? The support of my family also helped. They not only wanted me to improve, but helped me succeed. My mom picked up my medicine and took me to my therapist, my sisters started paying more attention to me and my behaviors, my brother would embrace me with a smile out of the blue.…
This condition haunted me from being awful in relationships to not joining a club I would love because I thought everyone would judge me and look down on me. I thought every action I committed to would negatively affect me and my only comfort was being alone, in my room, just video games and I. During my freshman…
It comes and goes and sometimes it’s stronger than the previous. It has affected me in school and family wise but i manage to do my best in both situations. It’s…
This disorder, also known as social phobia, often leads to severe impairment and disruption of daily life…
Emotionally, I continually worried about all the people I had let down and had difficulty seeing the positives. Mentally, I had a great deal of self-doubt and criticized myself. Behaviorally, I tended to avoid people and made more mistakes in living out my everyday life. To help cope with this, I spent a lot of time self-reflecting, working to remind myself that this failure doesn’t define my worth. Along with that, I used the support…