Clear up to our move Pam begged to remain behind and hold over the rent, after all
Clear up to our move Pam begged to remain behind and hold over the rent, after all
Patsey tried to explain that she was only getting soap from said neighbor’s wife, but Epps refused to believe her. Epps ordered for her to be tied down and stripped. He then grabbed a…
The past two weeks I have worked at northshore maternity and national womens community midwives. During my week at northshore it was incredibly busy and understaffed. I also remember thinking at times, where has the midwifery gone? We were so busy rushing around trying to provide safe and quality care to the women, but that fact is I feel we were too busy, with too larger case loads to provide true midwifery care. I cared for many day 1-2 sections, women with large blood losses requiring blood transfusions, a secondary PP and there was a woman with confirmed H1N1 on the ward who was unstable – but HDU wouldn’t allow her to be transferred around, and many other complex situations that really challenged my competence, knowledge and practice reasoning.…
Service was the only thing constant in my life. When I was 6, my mother was diagnosed with a stage 3 brain tumor; Anaplastic astrocytoma. It marked the beginning of a period of catastrophic events that left me feeling hopeless. My mother was in pain due to the seizures and there was nothing I could do to alleviate it. In response to the frustration I felt, I channeled my energy into volunteering and restoring life into communities, ultimately finding purpose once again.…
Throughout this semester, I have been given the opportunity to meet and begin a counselor to client relationship with Feng. At the same time, I have been given the opportunity to play the role of Ken who has been visiting a counselor. This role playing opportunity gave me real life experience to develop my professional role as a counselor and social worker. The sessions gave me opportunity how I can use myself in therapy and enabled me to attain knowledge regarding the many layers clients bring to therapy. Working with Feng, and acting as Ken revealed many dynamics that can occur within counseling sessions.…
On a snowy Christmas day at Sunrise Peak, there is a whiteout at the acme; snow is falling heavily, visibility is low, and the wind is unforgiving as it clashes against my bare face. I slowly start my descent down the mountain. As I begin to cut back and forth in a comfortable manner on my board I slip up. I try to turn to follow the slopes path, but I turned too sharply. The front of my board digs into the snow abruptly and causes me to plunge forward.…
For as long as I can remember, as a child I was raised to believe that a man should be the king of his castle. When I was five years old, that statement became a fable to me. I felt the Judas kiss the day my dad left. His reign has ended as king of his castle. He relinquished his crown and abandoned his kingdom.…
When I got to high school it was basically the same thing. I stopped playing sports, though just because of too much drama and I was tired of it. I tried to maintain above a C average in all my classes and even got better at not being so shy, but I was still pretty shy. I was still pretty shy, but I think I will always be that way. I still didn’t have many friends but, the friends I did have, I’m grateful that I had them and that they were willing to be my friend.…
After a long seven-hour car ride, we were finally here, in the Upper Peninsula. Looking out the window of our truck, I knew it was truly different than the big city I grew up in. Not many kids get to experience what happened to me the summer before my second-grade year, but it definitely changed my life for the better. When we first pulled into our new driveway, I could not believe what I was seeing. I can remember seeing a little farm house with about five horses in our backyard.…
A week into Fall, and the temperature was still lulling at 90 degrees, like the mosquitos that swayed comfortably above the bayou that ran for miles outside my English II class. The bayou would eventually diverge by my neighborhood. In class, the philosophical discussion on the Power of One by Bryce Courtenay also diverged. If Peekay could reach compos mentis (full command of one’s mind) after years of training, epitomized by a drunken bar fight, when would we ambitious students scrawled across plastic chairs and creaking wooden tables, reach compos mentis? Was it in adulthood, after college, or after the birth of our first child?…
One of the first times that I had ever spoken in front of a large audience, was when I was six. I was the angel in our Christmas Eve nativity service at church. When someone had asked me if I wanted to do it, I was pretty hesitant, but still decided to do it. I worked really hard to memorize the lines and get into character, but as soon as I got onto the stage, I froze. I was not physically able to move.…
One moment I felt older and leaned a lesson in my life was when I was twelve years old in florida running in the front yard when my mom had told me not to run around by the rocks. But I still had and ran straight into a rock with my foot, I broke my toe and part of my foot. So when i was twelve running and my mom had told me not to, i had not listened and did not care what she had said, so as i was running i smashed my toe into a rock and felt terrible for not trusting my mother. One reason is that I learned my lesson, I should always trust in my parents for what they tell me.…
While reading the nightly devotional to my boys, ages 8 and 12, my youngest crawls out of bed, goes over to his closet, and I instantly snap "Spiderman, Get. Back. To. Bed. Now.…
As a child in a large Asian family, nothing that I have done has ever been good enough. My grandfather is a wealthy, successful man, who rose up from nothing as a new American immigrant to where he is today. Thus, my mother has always felt that she was in his shadow. Because she had children early, she felt stuck in her life, never believing that she could move forward. As a result, she pushed her dreams and aspirations of moving out of the shadow onto me early on.…
Other activities this summer included a new-found sport, competitive mounted orienteering. It’s a treasure hunt on horseback. The idea is to use clues and compasses to find designated objects the fastest. Dave and I aren’t fast, but we had fun doing this a couple times. We also took a trip with the horses down to see my Mom on the farm.…
Sometimes, I come to moments in my life when I really, honest to God don’t want to do something (ok this might be more than sometimes). I procrastinate and put it off, always making up some excuse as to why I can’t do it right now or I find something to distract myself with. However, I know it needs to get done. It reminds me of when I was in Mr. Johansson’s math and science class in 4th grade.…