At the age of fourteen, my life took a completely different course due to my mother's illness. My mother three years ago had some great news she announced that she was pregnant with my younger sister. In her first appointment, she was diagnosed with Kidney Failure and was going to be put in Dialysis. I never imagined how one simple diagnose would change my life dramatically. I was the oldest of three. My mother’s pregnancy was like no other, she spent most of her pregnancy in the hospital and I had to grow up and be in charge of my siblings and my household because my mother couldn’t be with us. I started taking control of the house chores my mother use to do. The week my baby sister was born, my schedule revolved completely around the both of them. Right after school my dad would pick us up from school and go directly to the hospital and spend the rest of the evening with her. When visiting hours were over my dad and my siblings went home and I spent the night with my mother in the hospital. My father would pick me up …show more content…
Another important skill that I have learned was knowing when I need help weather its from my parents or my school teachers. This life experience thought me that its okay to ask fro help sometimes because I am not perfect and sometimes in order for me to be successful both at school and home I may need some help every once in a while. My teachers and my family became an important resource for me because there were times when I couldn’t finish something from school or I wasn’t able to help my mother with a house chore. For example if I had to much homework one evening I spoke to my mother and explained that I have to much homework and I wouldn’t be able to help her as much and she understood or vice
The basic function of a working kidney is to remove toxic waste from the bloodstream, balances body fluids and forms urine. (WebMd, 2013) When the kidney, which is an essential part of the human body fails and blood flow is compromised by electrolyte and acid base abnormalities this is Acute Renal Failure (ARF) also known as Acute Kidney Injury. There are three major causes of acute renal failure. First being Prerenal, which is primarily a severe drop in blood pressure and cessation of blood flowing to the kidneys caused by a traumatic injury or a severe illness. Secondly, another cause is Intrarenal which is the Middle stage of renal Failure, manifested by edema, toxins, drugs and decreased blood supply. Lastly, Postrenal is when the urine flow is compromised due to an enlarged prostate, stones, and/or a bladder tumor. According to the American Family Physician (2000) 60 to 70 percent of cases are prerenal causes.
Chronic kidney disease (CKD), which involves progressive, irreversible loss of kidney function, is present in 26 million Americans (Lewis, 2011, pp 1170-1181). There are many causative factors of CKD. Some of these causes are environmental; that is, the prevalence of CKD is influenced by how we live as individuals. Lack of exercise and poor diet can lead to hypertension, which can lead to CKD. Although other factors are involved, lack of exercise and poor diet also increases a person’s risk for developing diabetes, which is one of the second leading causes of CKD. This paper examines a few of those causes more closely and aims to educate clinicians, and their patients, on health promotion activities that they can implement to reduce the risk of getting CKD.
A few of my sisters went onto middle school while my younger sister Elaine and I finished elementary school. As I got older I became more of a loner kid like in middle school. I liked being inside playing video games. I considered myself the good kid compared to my sisters who were full of drama and craziness I think. My mom continued to work at big lots and my dad was still a land surveyor. I had the typical child hood as I grew through the years here in Aurora. That was until my mom started getting sick which really turned my world upside down. I was so worried about my mom. She lost her job and had to stay home. She was always sick and at home. There came a time where it was very difficult for her to take care of us. She would have multiple sinus surgeries trying to get better but they only seemed to make them worst. She started getting extreme migraines from nerve damage. It was hard to be around kids at that time for her. Sadly it would only get
My mother was diagnosed with cervical cancer at the time, so when she became sick, I had to become her aid. Every day after school, I would have to do my homework and then tend to my ailing mother via giving her medicine ...
At the age of twelve, I was diagnosed with Type One Diabetes. I remember the whole event of my diagnosis. At first, I thought that it was fun to have, because I had no understanding of what diabetes meant. People found out at school, and It gave me a lot of attention. As time progressed, I realized that I would have to eventually give myself shots. It gave me a wake up call. I eventually figured out that I would not be able to get rid of diabetes, because it is permanent. It was not a game, it was real life. I couldn't just turn off the video game and have it be done. Diabetes caused me to grow up really fast compared to most of my friends. I gave myself my first shot at the age of 12 and a half. I had to test my own blood sugar four times
Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is increasingly becoming a major community and public health issue. This paper looks into CKD as both a community and public issue and proposes how concerned stakeholders and partners can be mobilized to work together toward fighting the disease.
The kidneys are responsible for several necessary functions, which include maintain proper blood pressure levels, filtering toxins and wastes from the bloodstream, excreting the waste through urine, contribute to the production of red blood cells and producing a variety of essential enzymes and hormones. Approximately 30 percent of cats develop kidney disease during their lifetime; many of these cases will progress to kidney failure. When the kidneys fail to perform properly, the cat 's life is at risk.
On my mom’s side of the family, I am the youngest. She has four older siblings, and 3 of them have families on top of mine. It can get very hectic around the holidays but because of the large age gap between my cousins and me, I always had particular attention. The special attention was something I cherished until I got older. When I was older, I did not want to be treated as the youngest; I wasn’t a child anymore. I did not like that people talked down to me even when I was 17! I wasn’t knowledgeable enough to join the dinner conversation, but I still
The need for kidney donations is very high, there are more than 0ne-hundred thousand patients on waiting lists. Out of this figure, at least five thousand people die waiting each year. For the patients that are fortunate to receive a kidney there wait time was anywhere between two to four and one-half years. During this wait period they suffer through dialysis treatments to stay alive. The traditional understanding was to only use a healthy kidney for transplants. With the need being so great a study team was formed at Yale to investigate the possibility of using a less healthy kidney; technical term, Acute Kidney Injury (AKI). For the study The Program of Applied Translational
I choose this topic because my grandmother had died of kidney failure. Dialysis kept her alive for two weeks before she died. She had to go under dialysis but due to her weight, her heart problems and having diabetes, her body could not withstand the process and she died. Constructing a thesis statement and a topic sentence was difficult for me. I noticed I need more practice on constructing a thesis statement and the topic sentence. My evidence was kind of hard to find, I had to read a lot of article to get the right information to support my paper. Overall, writing the paper was a little bit difficult but learn how to construct a thesis and topic sentence. I used the Michigan state university library search tool on the website to find articles
A few years ago, my older sister was diagnosed with kidney failure and was near death within a matter of months. My sister and I have always been extremely close, and she has always been one of my biggest role models. When I was told she was sick I became extremely worried for her and wished there was something I could do.
Growing up as the middle child, I was the peacemaker, and the whole family looked to me for advice. My parents would sneak into my room one at a time and ask me for advice on marriage (as if I had
After having my sister my family and I had challenges to deal with that has changed my life at home and outside of it. My sister needed to be watched 24/7 in the beginning, so my mom had to her
Around the age of 6 my mom was hospitalized because she had extreme headaches, and that’s when she found out she had a tumor in her brain. She kept this a secret from me because she didn’t want to see me suffer more than what I already was. About a week after she found out the news of her tumor, my mom was obligated to tell me because she had to go to Florida to get surgery, since the hospitals in Peru did not have the proper equipment to do this surgery. After my mother broke the news to me, we both started crying. I did not know much about tumors, but I did know that it was a life threatening disease. The next day my mom and I went to the doctor to find out what procedure she should take to not put her life at risk. In that same appointment, we found out the pricy amount of the surgery. With my mom’s salary and all of our expenses, it was going to be impossible to pay for the operation, and my mom had to make the tough decision to postpone