Numb

Ever since I was little, people wanted to know, “What do you want to be when you grow up?” I explored several different career paths, from clothes designer to engineer, before I finally settled on nursing. Growing up, nursing as a profession was always in the back of my head since my mom, my grandma, several of my aunts, and family friends were nurses. I would hear stories when they talked about the work days. In particular, my mom was employed as the school nurse at my school from first grade…

Your very presence drives me over the edge. In the short story “The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe and “I Felt a Funeral in my Brain” by Emily Dickinson, death is the central idea for both works. In Poe’s story, the narrator goes down the path of insanity over the eye of an old man and would plan the latter’s murder. In Dickinson’s poem, she uses death to portray the deterioration of her sanity. Poe and Dickinson both use the concept of hearing voices and death along with repetitive words…

This day seemed like every other ordinary day in my life, but the event that transpired that day is etched into my mind forever. It seemed like a regular school day for me, except it was not. What had occurred on this day made me realize that the people we love can be gone at any time without a moment’s notice. It was the beginning of June. I had just finished taking my exams a few days prior, and I could finally relax, free of all the stress and anxiety that came with the exams. I came home…

father, a psychiatrist, sends him away to boarding school and puts Andrew on medicines that suppress all of his emotions and feelings. Though this may seem insignificant, these medicines are what catalyze the period of Andrew’s life in which he is numb of all emotion, allowing him to escape his reality and the truth. Andrew is so inexpressive that even when he receives the call that his mother passed away he does not shed one tear. Though Andrew is able to escape this truth through the use of…

of genuine intimacy (family encounters are annoying and forced), and mundane conversations with the speaker only speaking of themselves (Clay’s therapist talking about his therapist and screenplay writing). The elite society Clay resides in try to numb the pointlessness in their lives, only to desensitize themselves from any form of real emotion and morality. While Clay disapproves and…

coldblooded killer, “…the most reasonable guys are the mean ones. They don’t feel nothing.”(p. 4, l. 156). The sheriff is right about one thing in his observation: Arnold doesn’t feel anything, but it might not be because he is mean, he has just become numb, or as the author indicates in her title, he is a “stone boy”. He is trying to fight against people’s perception of him and who he really is, “…they would see that he was only Arnold and not the person the sheriff thought he was.”(p. 5, l.…

riding circles around my house with my “new” tricycle. I don’t know why but I loved that tricycle. Even when the trails were filled with brown dirt that gets in your eye and bumpy rocks than make you legs go numb after two minutes. Anyways, I was riding my tricycle and my legs were too numb to go on, so I stopped to get a break. I didn’t realize that taking that break would result in disaster. Right when I stopped, my aunt walked out the front door and rested her hands against the railing. I…

I heard a gunshot. I soon realized it was not a gunshot, but it was something just as severe. My left fibula snapped like a tree branch and a high pitched scream escaped my numb lips. It was a moment frozen in time. The snow seeped through my woolen jacket and slithered down my frozen back. Eventually my whole body became numb and my eyelids covered my teary…

Anesthesiology is a necessity in surgery. Anesthesia is a medicine that is used in most cases to paralyze or numb a patient that is undergoing surgery. The medicine is used on patients while under surgery to help them not feel the pain from the type of procedure being done at the time, also so they aren’t aware and helps ease their worries while under. Are there other Anesthetic alternatives that result in a better and faster recovery other than the normal General Anesthesia? On average 1 to 2…

Hello. Today I will present to you "Run, Boy, Run" by Willian Herman. The motivation behind why I picked this story is as I trusted it might have been creating an energized longing to accomplish something important. The story was around a kid named Glenn who conquered his lethargy and got to be one of the best and quickest runners in Kansas City. The main clash of this story is when Glenn, a 8-year old kid attempted to spare his more seasoned sibling from a flame. Glenn's nearest sibling…