Trigger finger

man invited himself to one of the chairs and began to pour himself a drink out of the kettle. Then Jingyan saw Xia Jiang pause to examine the clear liquid. "I don't drink wet leaves," said Jingyan. His gaze settled on a jade ring on Xia Jiang's fingers, a piece of blood red jade that the Hua people called the Warrior's Jade and the Liang people called Asuria Jade. "Are you a fan of jade? You show off a different ring every time I see…

ridges of the ink he used, his signature at the end as Rogelio Velasco. That should have warned me of the discretion he had over people knowing who he really was. Nevermind that, the poem needs to disposed of immediately. It’s hard to tear it off my fingers and into the burning fire, it’s like getting rid of a piece of your…

Conflict is hostility or disagreement resulting from actual or perceived differences. It occurs and is inevitable at times. Conflict starts when you have people with different expectations. Conflict is a normal, and can be a healthy, part of relationships. In fact, a relationship with no conflict could be unhealthier then one with the occasional conflict. In relationships you can’t always expect to agree on everything all of the time. However, learning how to deal with and solve conflict in a…

Through encountering horrific events during his life, Elie Wiesel has discovered, “When a person doesn’t have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity”. Elie Wiesel was a survivor of the Holocaust; in May 1944, when Wiesel was only 15 years old, the Nazis deported him and his family to Auschwitz, a concentration camp in Poland. His mother and the youngest of his three sisters died at Auschwitz, while he and his father were later transported to another camp, Buchenwald, located in…

Stages of pregnancy Weeks 1-3: The female hormone oestrogen will trigger a women’s uterus so it forms a thick blood-rich lining of tissue. The other female hormone progesterone will begin to prepare the uterus so it can support a fertilised egg and accommodate the growing baby over the next few months. During this time, the woman’s ovaries will also ripen the eggs in follicles (sacs filled with fluid). Ovulation This is a part of the menstrual cycle where the woman’s ovaries release an…

(2012), Duhiggs explains “this process within our brain is a three-step loop” (p. 19). That is, the three essential components that make up this ‘habit loop’ are as follows: a cue, a routine, and a reward. Beginning with the first step, a cue is a trigger that overrides the brain to enter an automatic and involuntary mode, before determining which habit to carry out. In this case, an alarm clock going off would be the cue. Clearly, the blaring alarm sound functions as a signal to be awaken.…

Attention Getter: We all have best friends. For a long time, I had an odd best friend that lived in my head. My best friend was some twisted little thing, telling me awful ways to deal with things. My best friend was my eating disorder. Eating Disorders are, any of several psychological disorders characterized by serious disturbances of eating behavior according to Merriam Webster’s Dictionary. Purpose: See, today I am in here because I need, not want, but need to talk about eating disorders.…

open and slipped in. Her skin was a dark olive shade and she over an inch taller as she stood beside me cross armed. She wrinkled her nose, sucking in her curved lips, her eyes grazing over me with a smirk. “You must be Maricel” She said. I tried to move away from her to mask my discomfort as my body betrayed me with nervous gestures. “I am who I am,” I replied. She tilted her head. “So how is Lemuria treating you?” “It is a lot to take in” I replied softly, keeping my eyes on the floor,…

proximity of so many patients, I kept calm and a little box of personal space around me. That morning I went to the group to music and social work group like I did the previous week, but the anxiety was getting worse. During lunch I tried to identify the trigger and assumed that it must be that I’m more of a control freak and some of these patients are quite literally “out of control”. That explanation didn’t sit too well with me, but it did make sense so I just continued on with the afternoon…

dysfunctions include dyspnea on exertion, palpitations, orthopnea, chest discomfort, paroxysmal nocturnal dyspnea, and eventually leading to signs of right-sided heart failure. Although, mitral dysfunctional may be asymptomatic to begin with, exercises can trigger fatigue, dyspnea and palpitations in the early years. 2. Palpitation is often described by patient as an increased self-awareness of heartbeats – feeling of heart beating faster, harder or skipping a beat. Palpitation is purely a…