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Tradition or not, when someone gets sick you take them to the doctor or in severe cases to the hospital. Unfortunately, this is not the case for my very traditional family. In the Hispanic culture, home remedies are the solution to every medical problem. Normally I wouldn’t mind this, but when you’re terribly ill and in dire need of medical attention, tradition should come second.
The appreciation I have for modern medicine grew larger in the summer of 2012. I traveled to Mexico for the summer to embrace the culture and to learn the language. Unfortunately that’s not all I learned. The summer was going great I had spent every waking moment with my family, enjoying the weather and basking in the sun. However, throughout my whole stay it seems that my stomach did not take much liking to the food. The traditional solution from my great and wise grandmother is to drink her magical potion, herbal tea.
The pain and agony this tiny frail old woman made me go through made me despise her and her so called “traditions.” I love my grandmother with all my heart, but when a person is struck wi...
This article is written in the first person's point of view. The style is informal, almost chatty in spite of the morbid topic it deals with. The author uses this style to tell the reader a story, like telling a friend an experience. The author's feelings and thoughts are freely expressed. This helps to put the reader into the author's shoes, to see through her eyes and feel through her heart.
The story Miss Julianne is an excellent example of patients suffering from dementia. Although one of my family members, my Nana was also a dementia patient, but after reading this textI can relate more to his situation. Miss Julianne is also a dementia patient as she keep-forgetting things and blames others, her aggressive behavior. This story relates to my personal experience, the challenges and the change in my views and opinions and resulted in my emotional response to it.
The healthcare establishment has identified that often “the practitioner will encounter families whose beliefs and assumptions about the etiology and appropriate treatment for illness is markedly different from their own” (Cora-Bramble, Tielman, & Wright, 2004, p. 102). This will often cause difficulties in treatment and may in fact, cause actual harm when medical treatment and traditional remedies collide, and treatment may, in fact, be necessitated by the administration of traditional cures rather than the illness itself. For example, Cora-Bramble, Tielman, and Wright (2004) cite a traditional remedy in Hispanic culture for a stomach ailment include azarcon and greta, which are lead oxides, resulting in lead poisoning if
Lisa Genova’s grandmother, who was 85 years old, had been showing signs of dementia for years; but she was a smart and independent woman who never complained, and she navigated around her symptoms. Her nine children and their spouses, as well as her grandchildren, passed off her mistakes to normal aging. Then they got the phone call when Lisa’s grandmot...
...that health is a gift from god and should be taken with a great respect. The prevention of illness is an accepted practice that is achieved through prayers. Shrines with statues and pictures of saint are in the homes of many Hispanic. The observable practice is candle lighting, visiting shrines, and offering prayers. They lit candled and recite prayers. In Hispanic family, the adult and children are to come home from school or working place to have a lengthy of time eating together their main meal. The Hispanic American has adopted a three-meal system where the midday and evening meal are important with a light breakfast. When the visitors are around after the meal they may have time to dawdle and talk over coffee or have a drink after dinner. In addition, when another serving is given, the Hispanic tends to accept only after which the second or third time offered.
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My grandmother has a certain look in her eyes when something is troubling her: she stares off in a random direction with a wistful, slightly bemused expression on her face, as if she sees something the rest of us can’t see, knows something that we don’t know. It is in these moments, and these moments alone, that she seems distant from us, like a quiet observer watching from afar, her body present but her mind and heart in a place only she can visit. She never says it, but I know, and deep inside, I think they do as well. She wants to be a part of our world. She wants us to be a part of hers. But we don’t belong. Not anymore. Not my brothers—I don’t think they ever did. Maybe I did—once, a long time ago, but I can’t remember anymore. I love my grandmother. She knows that. I know she does, even if I’m never able to convey it adequately to her in words.
On April 22, 2008, Anita passed after sustaining injuries she received from a domestic violence altercation. Despite the many trials in her life, she led a happy life and could always find humor in any situation. Always willing to lend a helping hand, one might consider her a natural caregiver. Happy, comedic, and a bit eccentric are words used to describe Anita. Her family would never could have imagined she would meet her tragic demise at such a young age. Oblivious to the abuse in their short and tumultuous relationship, no one was aware of her situation. She sustained injuries from a blunt force trauma during a domestic dispute with her boyfriend. Suffering from a horrific headache after the assault, her mother took her to the local hospital. The family received the disturbing call that would change the entire family dynamic. Anita was hospitalized due to injuries sustained from her boyfriend. She had reported the assault to the hospital employees, and then slipped into a coma (Desert Dispatch). Flown to a better equipped facility, neurological surgeons performed surgery in an attempt to salvage her life. The members of her family arrived at the facility not knowing what to expect. Life support machines breathing life into her, the family was distraught. The neurologist asked her sister’s to meet with him in the conference room. They knew what he would say, and devastation overtook them. Declining brain activity from one day to the next, the doctor stated that if she survived, she would awake into a vegetative state and require institutionalization. Anita’s family made a unanimous decision and did not want her to live without any quality of life. Immediately, family and friends showed up later and with heartach...
The grandmother is very old and has lived a very tough life in Vietnam. She “‘lost four of [her] children… twelve of [her] grandchildren and countless relatives to wars and famines’” (Meyer, 74) while in Vietnam. During her life she had very little time to enjoy herself, instead she had to focus on not only surviving, but also holding a family together and getting them through the hardships as well. On top of the Vietnam War, which killed an estimated 500,000-600,000 Vietnamese citizens alone (Weisner), she had to live through 2 additional wars and several famines. The implicated stress and hardships are almost unimaginable. This is evident in her stories and fairy tales she tells her granddaughters, which always have dark twist or no happy ending, or as the granddaughters say “The husband comes too late” (Meyer, 77) to stop the bad guy or save the
Pain and suffering is something that we all would like to never experience in life, but is something that is inevitable. “Why is there pain and suffering in the world?” is a question that haunts humanity. Mother Teresa once said that, “Suffering is a gift of God.” Nevertheless, we would all like to go without it. In the clinical setting, pain and suffering are two words that are used in conjunction. “The Wound Dresser,” by Walt Whitman and “The Nature of Suffering and Goals of Medicine,” by Eric J Cassel addresses the issue of pain and suffering in the individual, and how caregivers should care for those suffering.
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Gran, as I frequently called her, stood at five feet seven inches tall. She was an elderly woman in her mid-50s that enjoyed living life and helping others in any way possible, whether it is at the market selling produce, donating to a charity for the less fortunate, or participating in walk-a-thons. On the verge of going into her sixties, her behavior protruded was one of a woman in her early thirties. Dressed in a tight, knee-high khaki pants, a black V-cut top, and a black sandals, with her hand held on her hip saying, “I might be old in age, but I am young and strong at heart darling” as she responded to my comment, in my dialect, “Yuh feel you too young.” This brought much humor to the room. The joyou...
As our Society becomes more educated on how our food choices affect our health and wellbeing, Allopathic medicine needs to recognize its value. Since the beginning of mankind, people have used foods to not only fill their stomachs, but also to heal their bodies. Food can affect our health and even our emotions in both positive and negative ways. Allopathic medicine, evidence based science, looks at food mainly for its caloric value: using food to heal is looked and frowned upon, as “Alternative” medicine. Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) and Ayurvedic medicine though practiced for centuries have found their way into Western Cultures, becoming more popular as a way to become healthier.
When it comes to health, Brazilians believes many illnesses may be healed by divine intervention or fate. A common belief is that infants and children can become ill if exposed to fresh air or wind. When someone is sick, they are not expected to make decisions about their own health issues. Families handle these decisions. A mainstay of folk medicine is herbal and medicinal teas. Family members often share prescription drugs and self medication with antibiotics. Immigrants to the US frequently bring drugs with them or have them sent from Brazil. For procedure, they tend to accept surgery, blood transfusions and organ transplants. Biomedicine well accepted, but so are herbal and home remedies. Brazilian’s often take both same time. Some people helped by a folk remedy or pharmaceutical treatment suggest or recommended to
Two years ago today my great grandmother passed away from old age and suffered from Alzheimer’s disease. Although all of my memories with her are vague, I will never forget the happiness that emanated from her when you were around her. Even in her last days, when she could barely remember her own children, you never saw her without a smile on her face. And that to me is something that I will carry with me for as long as I