Six years ago I received a call from my son’s school nurse. He was complaining of having a headache. When I arrived at the school I noticed my son was confused and his face was drooping. Immediately I took him to the ER. They started doing tests and CT Scan. Before I was even told what was wrong with my son, EMT’s showed up with a stretcher. The doctor came in saying we were being transferred to Dell Children’s Hospital, CT scan showed a spot on my son’s brain. When we arrived at Dell’s we were greeted by the head of neurosurgery Doctor George. He explained that my son had to have an MRI done and took every measure to prevent him from having a stroke. After the MRI, we were told that Jarrett had a Cavernous Malformation an abnormal tangle of capillaries and small veins. They fill with blood and tissue, resulting in raspberry formation. He had tiny bleeding, but …show more content…
My son’s is located center of his brain close to the spinal cord. If they remove it, my son could lose motor function, speech, memory, even risks of stroke. Once a year we meet with Doctor George and Doctor Talmadge for an MRI and plans for the next year. We are lucky that Jarrett’s is located in a low flow artery, so chances of bleeding are very low. Monitoring it once a year with MRI’s is his only treatment at this time. There is a lot of risks with cavernous malformations. Some include seizures, painful headaches, dizziness, fatigue, and bleeding/hemorrhaging in the brain. No contact sports without special equipment. My son was so happy when he was cleared for football, but once he stepped onto the field. Fear took over and he walked off. When my son was first diagnosed, he was 10 he didn’t take it too well. He felt as if he was going to be living in a bubble. Even riding in a car scared him. He thought if he barely hit his head, he would die. He’s older now and excepted his condition. He’s even named it Peanut. He does things now without
It was the beginning of February when my grandfather was going in to receive his second knee replacement. Being his second time, we were optimistic that the surgery would go well and that he would recover without any issues. My grandfather made it through surgery and accordingly, had to stay for observation. During this time everything appeared to be normal, and knowing that my grandfather hates to be in hospitals, wouldn’t have said otherwise. When he was finally discharged, we took him home and the next day he appeared to have a stroke. The left side of his face had drooped down and he began feeling numbness and tingling on both sides of his body. We immediately rushed him to the hospital and at first it was assumed it was a stroke, but as his illness progressed it was apparent it was not. The numbness soon led to the loss of muscle control beginning at his legs and rapidly spreading up. My grandfather was able to specifically describe what he was experiencing and the doctor was able to diagnose him with Guillain- Barré syndrome.
One of the errors committed by the caseworker was that they failed to get an informed consent from Gabriel’s mother or a judge. Although his mother did signed off for Gabriel to receive treatments, it would be safe to say that his mother was
Jahi McMath is a 13-year-old girl living in Oakland, CA who was declared brain dead by multiple neurologists more than three months ago. Jahi was declared brain-dead December 12th after barriers during surgery a few days earlier to remove her tonsils, adenoids, and uvula at Children's Hospital & Research Center Oakland. At least three neurologists confirmed that Jahi was unable to breathe on her own, had no blood flow to her brain, and had no sign of electrical activity in her brain. Moreover, a court order kept Jahi's body on a ventilator while independent experts could be brought in to confirm the results (Wells, 2014). Even so, the McMath family was able to secure the release of Jahi's body through the county coroner, who issued a death certificate, and have been keeping her on a ventilator at an undisclosed facility ever since. This all occurred after Children’s Hospital released Jahi due to her severe brain damage along with the probability of the hospital receiving profit from discharging Jahi before her or her family were ready for her to be released (Johnson and Rhodes, 2010, p. 61).
There are numerous facts about this case that will be legally significant. The facts about the accident would include:
Jovan is a 23year-old African-American male, who has voluntarily admitted himself for inpatient treatment at a local non-profit agency due to abuse of alcohol and other drugs. Jovan has been unemployed for the past 9 months; his employment position with Dollar General was terminated due to charges of embezzlement. He admits that he took money from the register but planned to replace it when he got paid. So, Jovan is currently unemployed, homeless, and has charges pending due to embezzlement and for writing a number of "bounced" checks written over the past year.
They have all had training in order to make these difficult decisions, not to mention that they have more than likely dealt with such situations more often than they care to admit. The family got the same answer from two other physicians when they moved their son to another hospital, and they could only get one other hospital to take on the case and that was in another country. For me, that says plenty in verifying what the other physicians stated. However, if that were not enough, researching to learn more about brain death may have helped the parents realize the heartbreaking truth. Finger Lakes Donor Recovery Network does a great job with helping to understand brain death. It lists some of the most common causes, and the third of which is anoxia from an incident such as a heart attack (Finger Lakes Donor Recovery Network,
DK, a 20 year old, white female displays characteristics of a personality disorder, specifically a cluster B “Dramatic” personality disorder. Cluster B personality disorders include antisocial, borderline, histrionic, and narcissistic disorders (Comer, 2015). People with a “Dramatic” personality disorder display dramatic, erratic, or emotional behaviors, which hinder their ability to have meaningful, long-lasting relationships with others (Comer, 2015). In the particular case of DK, her behaviors seem to correlate with borderline personality disorder.
Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is a form a therapy that is short term, problem focused, cost effective, and can be provided to a broad range of disorders and is based on evidence based practices, in fact it is has the most substantial evidence based of all psychosocial therapies (Craske, 2017, p.3). Evidence based practice are strategies that have been proven to be effective through research and science. One goal of CBT is to decrease symptoms and improve the quality of life by replacing maladaptive behaviors, emotions and cognitive responses with adaptive responses (Craske, 2017, p.24). The behavioral intervention goal is to decrease maladaptive behavior and increase adaptive behavior. The goal of cognitive intervention is to modify maladaptive cognitions, self-statements or beliefs. CBT grew out of behavioral therapy and the social learning theory (Dobson, 2012, p.9). It wasn’t until the 1950s that CBT started to swarm the psychology field. Due to nonscientific psychoanalytic approaches, there was a need for a better form of intervention which ensued to behavioral therapy (Craske, 2017, p.9). Behavioral therapy included two types of principles classical and instrumental. Classical conditioning is based on response behavior and instrumental conditioning is more voluntary behavior (Craske, 2017, p.10). Although there was improvement in treatment, clinicians were still dissatisfied
The National Institute of Mental Health defines mental illness as a disruption in neural circuits. Mental illness is a social phenomenon which has been around since the prehistoric times. It is unequally distributed across social, ethnic and gender groups in the UK. The explanations for these differences rest upon biological, economic, cultural and institutional factors. Despite these, many medical advancements have made to treat mental illnesses. Looking at the history of mental illness, it was a widespread belief that mental illness is caused by spiritual or religious reasons, and rituals were used as the means to treat the individuals similar to today. So what is mental illness? The term itself covers broad of emotional and psychological
Mental Health is one of the most pressing issues facing young people in today’s society and the NHS is failing us. A staggering one in ten children and young people aged five to sixteen are affected by a mental health problem in the UK. This is despite the knowledge and awareness of mental health problems. According to the Mental Health Foundation, alarmingly 70% of young people who experience a mental health problem do not receive the appropriate support. The world would be outraged if this was the case for cancer suffers or broken bone victims. The emotional well-being of children and young people is just as important as their physical health. The early years of adulthood are decisive as the body and mind are quickly developing and day in day out young people are faced with new challenges. It is fundamental that
Often times, I continue to have vivid flashbacks of the day my father came home from his first major surgery. I can precisely remember the slim plastic tubes protruding from my father’s neck connected to a small bottle collecting the accumulating drops of blood. I was
His name is Zack Lystedt and if you haven't heard of him yet, you would be surprised how influential he has been to the state of Washington and the field of neurology. Zach was a 13-year-old boy back in 2006, full of life and promise. One day that changed, he was playing a game of football for his recreational team when he went for a tackle a few yards away from the end zone. When he came down from the tackle, he began to hold his head, you could tell something wasn't right. His coach took him out for a few plays, his coach deemed him well enough to play and he went back into the game to play the second half. After the game, his dad and him were walking off the field when he suddenly collapsed. Zack had suffered another concussion, two in one game. This is referred to as Second Impact Syndrome. Zack didn't regain consciousness for over a month. He didn't speak a word for another 9 months. It took him 3 years to be able to stand up and slightly walk. These are all task we take for granted, but Zack wishes he could go back to that day in 2006 to be able to do them. After his accident, Zack and his family pushed to pass a law that would keep any youth athlete suspected of having a concussion out of the game until a licensed medical professional clears that athlete. This law passed in Washington, and it didn't take long before it passed in all 50 states. This law is called the Zack Lystedt law. This story is an important one
Not only do we know the effects of playing football at a young age, we also have real life stories that have occured to real people. For example, In 2006 a 13 year old named Zachary Lystatdt’s head hit the ground in a routine tackle. He was in pain, so the coach took him out of the game for two plays. He returned to the game and on the last play he collapsed. Zachary was rushed to the hospital and was required to have emergency neurosurgery. After this life changing surgery, 9 months later he was finally able to communicate. Now, he is still learning how to walk (Hamblin, James. “Football Alters the Brains of Kids as Young as 8.”)This story sets an example of why children should not be able to play contact sports until adulthood. Unfortunately, this is not the only sad story about a child who has had life changing effects from playing
According to her parents, she was very active and didn’t have any other health histories. These changes had happened suddenly and they brought her to the hospital for further evaluation and checkup. Parents were very anxious, very tearful, and do not know how to help their child. Physician ordered a stat head computerized tomogram (CT) and the CT revealed a huge mass on her frontal area of the brain suspected malignancy. The neuro surgeon explained them she needed a stat surgical removal of the tumor and the girl need to be in the hospital for quite long time for further treatment. The doctor could not give them much hope on whether or not the girl’s tumor would be treated and if she would go back to her normal
We arrived at the emergency room only to find several people already there. Joey was begging me to do something to stop the pain in his back; we waited and waited and waited. Finally, in total anger and despair I set out to find someone to help. The doctor came over, examined him and asked me several questions; it was slowly becoming apparent to me that this doctor did not have any answers. Meanwhile I was growing more concerned about the unknown; what was wrong with my child? The doctor, obviously puzzled by the situation, decided to run a CBC (complete blood count). This took what felt like an eternity, suddenly the doctor became somewhat evasive, almost secretive. I was exasperated, determined to find out what was wrong with Joey’s lab report. I inched my way over behind the curtain, so I could overhear bits and pieces of the doctor’s conversation. They were discussing things like a low hemoglobin count and a high white blood cell count, then I heard it, the most devastating word I have ever heard a doctor say-Leukemia.