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After being told I was miscarrying at 7 weeks, my little man beat the odds to hang on (until) 36 weeks gestation to be born. After 7 weeks of bedrest and an emergency c-section, he was here. He spent 2 weeks in the NICU, where he was diagnosed with several heart defects and a broken femur that happened during his delivery – C.A.F. I was at work on break when C called me with the news. I wasn’t having a particularly good day because my manager, a woman who took pleasure making me feel like a…

How did I get my head cut open? It started on a beautiful afternoon. The sun was shining and the weather was hot. It was a good day to be going outside. At the time I was in my babysitter's apartment since that was where I went after school. The apartment was a small 3 room area with a glass table and couches. My friend was a really good friend of mine who I played with a lot. I used to live in Fox Run, the development I had moved from. I had told my sister that I wanted to go outside but she…

surgery, there was a reason. It isn’t expected of me to do this but when it comes to needles and tubes going up my nose I wasn’t too thrilled. Nurse Kim escorted me to my pre op room to prepare for my knee surgery. I’m not necessarily scared of the doctors or nurses but I just watched a whole season of Grey’s Anatomy before my surgery so in my mind, the simplest surgery can end in death with one mistake. The gown was very plain and open in the back, not the cutest thing in the world but…

It was time to answer the question, after years and years of trials and tribulations, the day was here. My heart was beating out of my chest as I went through all of the possible things that the doctor might say once he entered the room. First, let me back track a little and explain the events leading up to this moment. My sister and her husband have been married for 5 years now and have struggled with infertility for three of those five years. When my sister and brother-in-law were informed…

The second group consist of two mangers or PCMs. PCM stands for patient care mangers. Each manger has a team that works under them. The team includes a doctor, nurses, CNAs, PCSs, and social workers. The list of clients are broke in to two color groups. Depending on their location and medical history they will either be assigned to the green or orange group. The mangers are in charge of scheduling which…

I walk up to the help desk and I tell the man sitting there that I have been waiting here forever and if he can tell me what is going on with Sam Evans? “Excuse me Hi are you Bridget I am Dr. Stubs I am your friend Sam's doctor.” “Oh is everything okay with him.” “He is in the operating room right now, do you think that you can tell me what happened to him again?” “Yes well he was walking past my house and all of a sudden out of nowhere someone shot him, then I ran outside to see if he was okay…

get x-rayed. I get through o the x-ray room and the doctor starts to twist my arm to get it into position with the x-ray machine and during this i am screaming in pain and i feel like i am agai going to faint beacuse of the pain it was as if to me that my arm was being ripped off as the pain was so much. After all of this i have to waut for around another hour to get the x-rays back. When the doctor can finaly tell if my arm is broke or not he calls me and my mum through to his office and shows…

seemingly normal man sits on the exam table in a doctor’s office. He was just referred from the emergency room of the hospital moments earlier and his wife is outside the door, making a call. Neurologist and author of Altered Egos: How the Brain Creates the Self walks in and introduces himself as Dr. Feinberg. The man calls himself John and offers his right hand for Feinberg to shake. Then, to Feinberg’s astonishment, he sees his patient had “what looked like severe chemical burns on his hands;…

the hospital anyways. At the hospital there were numerous patients and calls even though the hospital is half an hour from the incident. In the hospital the doctor was nice and although I was hurt pretty bad, the X-Rays showed nothing was broken. The runaway carriage, bouncing up and down, racing the parade path trampled over my buttocks and behind my knee, the carriage ran over my ankle, and my chin hit the curb. The doctor requested I wear a wrap around my leg the rest of the summer. After the…

she had never had any babies to compare her baby to, but this gave Val something to talk to and ask the doctors about. Finally, with the help of her step dad, Val was able to convince the doctors to allow her to visit a specialist in a hospital to have more tests run on Ethan. These tests revealed something was wrong with Ethan’s heart, but the doctor wasn’t sure what he was looking at. The doctor sent out images of Ethan’s heart to cardiologists in 12 different states and finally got the…