During the stages of Maddy being an infant she was outside one day and began looking really red and had a rough period of time breathing. Her mom then drove her to the ER where she was taken care of. The Doctor came into the room and diagnosed Maddy with “ Severe Combined Immunodeficiency.” Which most of us know or have heard it as “Bubble Baby Disease.”(pg 3) In the book it claims that Maddy cannot go anywhere outside of her house because anything can trigger her disease at any moment anywhere. (Pg 4) Maddy in the book tells us what the definition to her disease is “ It can lead to susceptibility to most serious of the primary Immunodeficiencies. Fortunately, effective treatment, such as stem cells transplantation, exists and can cure the
She had fever, felt a pain in her hip, loss of sleep, the then pain spread to several parts of the body over the next few days her blood pressure of dropped significantly during the first day of her illness, she also had little infected boils all over her body. Doctors thought that Addie was infected with a virus. In the first hospital and pneumonia in the hospital which specialized in children’s care.
When Marie tries to ask the protagonist to take a walk, this action shows that she is trying to achieve Pauline’s dream by getting her outside of the house. Therefore, she could finally feel the true meaning of freedom. Nevertheless, Pauline’s mother’s response demonstrates that she wants her daughter’s safety more than anything. The mother tries to keep Pauline away from the danger, so the protagonist can at last have a healthier life. However, Agathe’s reply shows that her mother is willing to sacrifice Pauline’s dream to keep her secure.
•Her father was a physician and died from a typhus outbreak when Irena was seven years old
Caitlin*, a 16-year-old sophomore at the Boston Latin School, was diagnosed at the age of 11. Trying to complete her schoolwork while maintaining her health is often difficult, Caitlin said.
Credibility statement: I may not look like an expert of any sort, but I have personally seen how this disease takes over the body in my own grand-mother.
Upon speaking to her brother, it was learned that her husband had died about one year earlier and that she had several new diagnoses in the last few months; including: Diabetes mellitus, anorexia (with marked weight loss), sleep disturbances, and mild dementia. She had been having difficulty with the management of these new illnesses and was still grieving for her husband.
ADA-SCID, or bubble boy disease (“Gene Therapy for”), is a genetic hereditary disorder that affects one’s immune system (“Adenosine Deaminase”). The affected are deprived of basic immunity against viruses, fungi, bacteria and are also susceptible to serious infections that people with a normal functioning immune system do not get. Most victims of this disease are diagnosed in the first half of their lives and if not given proper treatment, the child will most probably not live more than 2 years (“Adenosine Deaminase”). The major symptoms of ADA-SCID are chronic diarrhea, rashes, setback development, pneumonia (“Adenosine Deaminase”), skin infections, respiratory system infections and digestive system infections (“Adenosine Deaminase (ADA)”). ADA is caused by the mutations seen in the ADA gene (“Adenosine Deaminase”), located on the 20th chromosome (“Adenosine Deaminase (ADA)”), which is in charge of creating the enzymes adenosine deaminase (or ADA) that is mostly operating in special white blood cells called lymphocytes.
In the story, a woman who just gave birth had some complications which resulted in her so
The disease has an unpredictable clinical course. This means it’s hard to give a prognosis in any single patient.
mother had died of ‘Inflammation of the Brain’– perhaps meningitis or a stroke – at the age of
Imagine yourself as a sweet, innocent, precious little baby. You are totally dependant upon adults to give you what you need and most importantly love. Your only means of communication is crying so you cry when you need to be fed, when you need your diaper changed, when you aren’t feeling so well, or when you just want some attention. You are crying and someone comes over to you. They pick you up, but instead of holding you and comforting you, talking affectionately to you, they shake you violently and vigorously. You are a baby, imagine the fear and pain that the shaking causes you. This is a form of child abuse and what is even harder to believe is that it actually happens. The correct term is Shaken Baby Syndrome and it is a form of abuse that is happening far and wide.
The story started when Henrietta felt knots in her body. People around her said that maybe the knots were because she was pregnant. However, Henrietta never felt these knots before she was pregnant. After a week, she felt something was wrong with her body and she turned up pregnant with her fifth child. Her cousins, Sadie and Margaret, told her that the pain probably had something to do with the baby. “However, Henrietta said that it was not, because the knot is there before the baby” (Skloot 36). After her son was born, Henrietta told her husband, David Lack, to bring her to the doctor because she was bleeding in her vagina when it was not her time. They went to a clinic at Johns Hopkins hospital. In this hospital, Howard Jones, a gynecologist, did an examination of Henrietta an...
form of treatment. There is nothing in her history that hinted at any biological problems.
The mother described the child as being a fussy infant who had trouble sleeping and would awake several times during the night. The mother also reports the child was a fussy eater, and she experienced trouble feeding her daughter during infancy and needed to switch her daughter to soy formula. Overall the mother reported that the daughter was a happy infant who smiled often. The mother reported her child being alert and responding positively to family members who visited and enjoyed playing with her toys. In regards to the development, the mother reported that her daughter seemed to be developing slower than her first child who hit certain milestones earlier.
When Helen was nineteen months old she came down with a serious fever. The doctors called it congestion of the brain and stomach. Suddenly, the fever went away and she became blind. Helen was having a bath when her mother moved her hand in front of her face and she did not blink or move her eyes at all. She did it several times to see if she would blink but she never did. Helen’s mother realized that her daughter had become blind.