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told by your health care provider. Keep all follow-up visits as told by your health care provider. This is important. Contact a health care provider if: Your medicine is not helping to relieve pain and swelling. Get help right away if: Your arm is numb, cold, or pale, even when the splint is loose. CancelCopy and…

life using these drugs. The film makes it apparent that sometimes taking away these elements of life, may cause you to become numb and walk through your continuance as a zombie of sorts. Medication for things like ADHD and Depression can be very helpful, but taking multiple pain medications as well as these types of medicine for mental issues could cause you to become numb to life and unable to feel many things you otherwise would or even cause you to have a difficult time thinking clearly. The…

Mindfulness is awareness of the present moment with acceptance and without judgment. The tendency of the mind is to judge our experience as pleasant/unpleasant, good/bad, and then we attempt to avoid or numb out the experiences that we judge as unpleasant, such as grief. We can’t selectively numb our pain without also numbing positive emotions, like joy. See if you can allow the feelings of grief to be and simply notice them with compassion. When we can open our hearts to our suffering, we can…

nightmare. As I was suspended in the air in the middle of my full my feet missed the mat and both my hands came slamming down onto the floor. I was awestruck as I got up, but continued on until I reached the dance. That is when my hands started turning numb. I look down both my hands were swollen and looked like two big blue balloons. As I sat in the emergency room of Centre-State hospital waiting for my name to be called I felt anxious and nervous that both my hands were broken;…

For women, having a baby can be both scary and exciting; I would like to have the opportunity to make it less scary and more exciting for, not just the mother, but their partner too. I think it would be wonderful to bring babies into the world everyday, and get paid for it. I have a very strong desire to become an OB/GYN, a doctor that delivers babies. I have wanted to become an OB/GYN for two years now and nothing has changed that in any way. When I was sixteen-years-old I was given the…

Multiple Sclerosis and Psychological Intervention Multiple Sclerosis, commonly shortened to MS, is an autoimmune disorder that affects the brain and spinal cord, causes multiple problems including visual impairments, weakening of muscles, numb or prickling sensations, worsening of balance and coordination, and even memory problems (Multiple Sclerosis). This disorder arises from the breakdown of myelin, which is needed for proper nerve functioning. It is an autoimmune disorder because the body…

on the ground, and the slick metal of my car. The weight of the heavy car pressed down on the lower half of my body with monster force. It did not hurt, my body was numb. My lunged felt pinched, like no air could enter nor escape. I tried desperately to yell but, my voice was unheard. All I could do was wait, wait on the cold earth, numb, with the hope that someone would find me. Time ticked by slowly, and I could feel the frigid, soft snowflakes covering me. Finally I heard the wail of an…

Ever since my grandmother had passed away, I myself have been through many struggles: such as schooling, friendship, moving, becoming a wife, and becoming a mother. This all started when I was a sophomore in high school so I was 15 years old. You would think I would only be focusing on my studies. Well that is not the case for me. My grandmother was the person who raised me, so you would call her a mother to me, and I would call her a mother. I was always spoiled rotten by her, my cousins…

Dahmer turned to alcohol to numb the pain that was building up inside of him, Backderf states, ”Dahmer wasn’t after a buzz. He was making himself…numb (82). Dahmer gave up on having a normal life and could not control his dark thoughts because he became dependent on alcohol. He thought that alcohol would help but it wound up making it worse…

Post-traumatic stress disorder is a mental health condition that is triggered by a petrifying event that an individual has witnessed or experienced. The most common events that cause an individual to have post-traumatic stress disorder is combat, sexual assault, a natural disaster, and car accidents. In the brilliantly written novel, Snow Falling on Cedars, written by David Guterson, the main characters Kabuo Miyamoto and Ishmael Chambers are haunted by their unspeakable pasts. To briefly…