"The Young Amputee" The time is 9:32 p.m. here at St. Joe Medical Center where I am a nurse assistant on the orthopedic floor. I have just been asked to assist a nurse with a dressing change. This isn’t just changing a band-aid to a scratch on a knee type of dressing change. I am assisting in a dressing change to a thirty-year old female named Kathy that was hit by a car as a pedestrian. Kathy was pronounced dead at the scene of the accident and later revived in the emergency room. Doctors were able to save Kathy, but not her left leg. She is now a below the knee amputee. To prepare my self for this task, I have to wear protective clothes which consists of: a white hair net, an airtight orange facial mask that looks like a duck bill, a long sleeve bright yellow lab coat, rubber gloves and blue foot protectors. This gorgeous ensemble will protect Kathy and myself from infection. Did I mention that I look like an over-grown duck? As I open the door and enter Kathy’s room, what smells to be the odor of a dead and rotting animal carcass consumes my lungs. Tears are beginning to well up in my eyes and my stomach is feeling like it is going to erupt. Kathy has a severe infection in the remainder of her leg. What I see before me is a beautiful young girl laying flat on her back, fast asleep in her bed. I pull the sheet back from across her body and to my surprise what is left of Kathy’s leg has no bandages covering it. Broken bones, red muscles, blue veins, white tendons and yellowish fat cells are visible. Her leg is left open because there isn’t enough skin to close wound. There is also a gaping hole the width of a soda can and about eight inches deep running down next to the tibia and fibia bones in the middle of her leg. It looks as if someone slapped a few pounds of raw ground beef in the middle of her bed where the rest of her leg should be. The nurse tells me that my only job is to hold up in the air what is left of Kathy’s leg so she can debreed the inside of her leg. This isn’t going to be easy because Kathy’s leg weighs at least seventy-five pounds.
The field of physical therapy has been largely influenced by social civil occurrences. A large impact on this field is credited to the various wars throughout the United States history, allowing for the advancement maturation of this young field. Wartime conflicts placed a demand for healing of injured soldiers, the field of physical therapy providing the supply. This field has adapted throughout the years, a resiliency that has earned respect in the health care realm (Echternach, J. L. (2003). Foundational
painkillers and numbed his left foot in ice water to reduce impending pain. He then buried his foot in dry ice for six hours to induce severe frostbite and force surgeons to operate” (Adams, 2007). The previous insert from William Lee Adams’ article, Amputee Wannabes, describes a 33-year-old man’s wish for amputation of his foot. There was nothing physically or medically wrong with this limb; John only stated that he did not feel comfortable with his own body and felt as though his foot was not a part
as his primary source of transportation, Paul’s leg was a major part of his life and being amputated meant a lot of complication for the rest of his life. The story looks into the life of Paul and his struggles in his new, modified life as an old amputee, who prefer life in solitude. Looking deeper in the meaning of his seemingly stubborn attitude towards his amputation, Paul showed a great psychological shift on how to live the rest of his life and start to accept rather new concepts that he
Terry Fox is an individual who has had an enormous impact on society as we know it today. Although losing his right leg to cancer at a young age, he wouldn’t let that stop him from running across the nation of Canada in hopes of raising money and awareness for cancer research. The run, officially named, “The Marathon of Hope” would be recognized by many as an incredible journey which from its start to end would overall distance around 5373 kilometers in 143 days. Still to this day, Terry Fox is widely
Lesson : Men of Honor As long as there is a will, nothing is impossible Carl Brasher is a man that trying to become the first African American Navy diver. But because of the racist issues, he faces oppositions from those who do not want him to succeed, including Billy Sunday, the Navy Master Chief. There are the oppositions and challenge faced by Carl before and after being a navy diver. His will in faced the problem and obstacle give some lesson and motivation to the audience. • Firstly, Carl
“Scarlett…” Thefamouspeople.com). She didn’t start performing on the big screen until 1994’s North, a fantasy comedy film. But it wasn’t until 1998’s The Horse Whisperer before she got attention for her acting skills. In the movie she played a young amputee teenager (Biography.com) .This role brought critical acclaim, woo-ing not only the director, but also the audience (“Johansson… Life”). For The Horse Whisperer she received her first award from the media critic Youngstar for “Best Performance”
we think of romance novels, one's first thought might be of the kind we see at the newsstand while waiting to check out at the grocery store. Visions of a white knight like Fabio whisking away the fair damsel in distress. Romance novels for the young adult are appealing because many romantic symbols relate directly to what they're experiencing both physically and emotionally in their lives; that of youthfulness and hope. The protagonist of Izzy, Willy-Nilly is Isobel Lingard, a/k/a Izzy; a 15
expressed with different feelings such as fear, anger, love, sadness, happiness etc. One of the best films and apart was created based on a writing is The Diary of a Young Girl of Ana Frank. Was a German-born diarist and writer. She is one of the most discussed Jewish victims of the Holocaust. Her wartime diary The Diary of a Young Girl has been the basis for several plays and films. Born in the city of Frankfurt in Germany, she lived most of her life in or near Amsterdam, in the Netherlands. Born
Through the years, the human race has managed to relate the history of events through storytelling. We humans have told stories of nonfiction and fiction, through pictures and words. For example, The Brothers Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, have told countless stories of the fantasy persuasion. These brothers wrote such famous stories as Cinderella and Snow White, two classic tales whose impact has changed the idea of storytelling. As time went on, many of these stories have been changed and re-written
Oskar Schindler starts out as a flawed man who wants to make money and enjoy the luxuries “of high living” (Ebert 1993) and has little regard for human life besides his own. He He goes through many different, important events that all change him subtly. After World War II ends he becomes a hero to the world, especially to the Jewish people who are called “Schindler’s Jews,” the Jews whom he first uses for his own selfish purposes. Oskar Schindler helps to save over one thousand Jewish people through
life. Every descision she makes is determined by her mood and health. Hazel's mother notices her depression, and takes her to a cancer support group. There, she meets other kids who are fighting cancer and a boy named Augustus Waters who is a leg amputee at the support group for his friend, Issac. Augustus catches Hazel's eye, and immediately makes a connection with him, despite her
Sam Shepard wrote Buried Child in 1978, and it was first produced at the Magic theatre in San Francisco on 27 June the same year. It won him the Pullitzer Prize for drama in 1979. Buried Child is the second in series of family plays, which includes the first The Curse of the Starving Class (1976) and others like True West (1980), Fool for Love (1983) and A Lie of the Mind (1985). Although a work of fiction, Buried Child has a number of autobiographical elements from Shepard’s own background. Shepard’s
In the 2015 Australian action film Mad Max: Fury Road, directed by George Miller, the film is set in a dystopian world where all civilization has failed which led to it becoming a wasteland, Max Rockatansky, Imperator Furiosa along with five wives and a war boy called Nux get chased by the evil Immortan Joe and his army as they try to escape from his captivity. Since Mad Max is an action film, it consists of so many different elements that made the movie so appealing to watch. The film segment that
2007 survey it notes that disabled young adults between the ages of 19 and 24 are about twice as likely in comparison to the general public of the same age to have previously dropped out of high school, Their education is also more common to then end there, and half as likely to move into
How To Survive in Homeless Conditions Lucy is a young, homeless woman who appears on the cover of Denbok's book — had a big dream of being a writer or a journalist but opioid addiction has thrown her life off track. Finally, ended up living on the street. On the photographer’s picture, Lucy has a tear besides her right eye, she is overwhelmed by drugs and homeless condition (Google News). Homeless people have to accept whatever they get. Eat a type of food that you were reluctant to eat, wear