In life, people might have at least experienced one time when things didn’t turn out like the way they have expected but that unexpected moment can be significant to them or it can be just like a fraction of a dot in their life. For me, since I was brought to this world, there were moments which that I could say significant and unexpected in my life.
I was born on October 28th, 1995 at a small local hospital, which is just two miles away from my house. As soon as I was taken out from my mother’s womb, gynecologist placed his stethoscope on my chest and said, “ This child is not going to live long.” Gynecologist detected a murmur, which suggested that I was born with a hole in my heart and later found out that the heart defect name is called PDA (Patent Ductus Arteriosus). PDA is a congenital
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At that time, the new family moved into our neighborhood and one of the women in that family had a same heart condition like me, and she recently had a closure in her heart by the process called heart catheterization. Heart catheterization is the closure of the hole in the heart by inserting the closure device into the heart from the vein in the thigh area. With the help of that woman, I went to the hospital and got my hole in my heart closed by heart catheterization. Another good news was that it costs only 2000 dollars because at that time, there were volunteer cardiologists in the hospitals and they performed the surgery for free and only the price of device used was charged.
From those unexpected moments, one thing I knew was that unexpected moments in life could raise me or beat me down. The main thing is to be prepared to face any kind of unexpected moments and not to give up and embrace the life we have without blaming others for the predicaments we face in our lives. It is natural to have unexpected moments in one 's life. So, why not keep on
In conclusion, the prognosis for infants and children with Tetralogy of Fallow is good with surgical treatment. The benefits to the complete repair help infants to have a virtually normal functioning heart. Even though most children do well for many years after the surgery, there are a small number of children who need subsequent operations. Children with tetralogy of fallow are followed by a cardiologists are many years after the initial diagnosis.
Everyone has a special event that determines our life journey. This event can give us identity, happiness or even pain and sadness. The special event that changed my life was deciding to play basketball because basketball helped me find peace, happiness and gave me identity. When I was ten years old my grandfather succumbed to cancer. His death created hatred inside of me.
My first option would be the pharmaceutical option if my child had patent ductus arteriosus. My reason for medication primarily because it may seem to be the most at ease direction since my child’s heart may be in pain. My second option may be cardiac catheterization where my child is sedated and painless with the tube reaching the heart. My fear of surgery places that option as last unless professionals suggest to me that I should take that option first for the best interests of my child. A service delivery model I would choose would be possibly be a home-based program model where a professional can come to my house and interaction directly with my child according to their needs. I would like to acquire different methods that can support my child without looking at her or his condition as interfering with her or his development.
Watt S, Bueser T, Robert M L P. (2009). A multidisciplinary service for inherited cardiac disease in a regional clinical genetics service. British Journal of Cardiac Nursing. 4 (7), 325
There was one time in particular I found myself in a situation which in the past, would have rendered me unable to cope. My Au pair family asked me to take the train by myself to travel to their uncle’s home and bring back their child. I had only been there for a little over two weeks. I still didn't have a good understanding of the Italian language. I was worried I wouldn't make myself understood if I needed help on the way. On my way there, I got off at the wrong station and found myself lost in the center of the town’s piazza. I had never experienced anything like this, and though I was afraid, I kept calm. After an hour of backtracking, I found my way back to the train station and boarded again and was able to find the right destination. I retrieved the child and brought him back home. What an adventure! Later that evening I reflected on how unnerving and stressful the event had been. I was pleased that I’d persevered in the midst of such an anxiety-ridden and intimidating situation. This was one example where I proved to myself how capable I
Lessons can be learned from the littlest of experiences. Important life lessons can be taken from not only success, but also our greatest failures. Adversity can greatly alter our perspective and provide an individual with wisdom. The first time I was faced with adversity was when I broke my tibia and fibula. I was involved in sports and this was definitely a setback, to say the least. Moments after the accident, I realized that the months of recovery I would have to toil. I realized these future and upcoming months would require patience and I would undergo great amounts of drudgery.
In December of 1992, my paternal grandfather suffered a heart attack. He had been hauling several 50 lb. sacks of corn up into the deer feeder on his property by himself. He got into his truck, turned the ignition, put it into drive and before he could take his foot off the brake, he was dead. He was 68 years old. I was thirteen and that seemed so old. I remember that prior to the event there were many conversations within my family about the condition of my grandfather’s heart and cardiovascular system and how he needed to make lifestyle changes. I remember him taking nitroglycerine pills. I remember him coming to Dallas to go to an appointment so that they could perform tests with names like “stress EKG.” I remember that these things meant little to me at the time.
You have six months to live. That 's what the doctor tells you, obviously are devastated by the news but there is a glimpse of hope. only 24,314 people are ahead of you on the heart donation list. Unfortunately due to the high demand of organs and the lack of organ donor 's there 's a very good chance you will not receive a heart in time. The only way to change that is to increase the amount of organ donor 's out there which is precisely why am here today. I would like you to become an organ donor so that together we can help save lives of people who are in need. It 's easy to become an organ donor are in cost you nothing you have the possibility to change lives for the better and frankly when the time comes you won 't be needing them anyway so you might as will give them to somebody who does. Becoming an organ donor is the right thing to do but if you aren 't convinced just yet let me go into a little bit of detail.
Five year old Jacob Turner is a healthy boy without many cares in this world. His father takes sole care of him because his mother died suddenly. Genetic testing after death, showed a genetic mutation in Jacob's mothers genes that caused her to have an irregular heart. Unfortunately, Jacob has also inherited this mutation, but fortunately, this disorder can be controlled by medications. Now, Jacob's father has another problem. No insurance company will cover young Jacob because of his known heart irregularity.
In life we all face obstacles. The troubles that we face don’t define us, how we overcome the situation is what makes us the people we are today. Throughout my life I have faced many trials and tribulations that I had to overcome with the help of my mother, ofcourse. I was smooth sailing in life until I started high school.
All companies that are connected with the healthcare system encounter multiple problems that are not being resolved. Queens of Bringing Hearts Together is a company that deals with several heart issues and it is open to the public to provide the best care plans, knowledge and heart transplants at affordable prices for patients. The reason why we decided to construct a company based on heart related issues is because this chronic issue is not taken seriously, as it should be. At the moment it is being stated that, “Heart failure is a progressive and disabling medical condition estimated to affect 5.7 million Americans and consumes an estimated total of $27 billion dollars in annual treatment expenditures” (Gellis 2012). The heart related issues
At the beginning of the summer of 2014, my mother became tragically ill after a hectic emergency room visit. Afterwards, extensive testing revealed that she had several serious medical conditions including atrial fibrillation, mitral valve disease ,and congestive heart failure. After her stay in the hospital, she was sent home with new medications and assured that her conditions could be easily managed. A short amount
After her doctor’s visit that she reluctantly went to, she announced to the family that she was suffering from a damaged heart valve. We were all terrified about what would happen to her, but she assured us that the doctor said it could be fixed with a minimal risk.
In life, many things are taken for granted on a customary basis. For example, we wake up in the morning and routinely expect to see and hear from certain people. Most people live daily life with the unsighted notion that every important individual in their lives at the moment, will exist there tomorrow. However, in actuality, such is not the case. I too fell victim to the routine familiarity of expectation, until the day reality taught me otherwise.
Everyone has milestone days in his/her life that change the direction of his/her life for better or worse. Let me tell you one of my experiences that I will never forget from when I was 12 years old.