For several years Denise Cooper cared for her demented mother and her extended family in a small town in Washington State. She recorded an extensive blog, from which this is a short excerpt....
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Each time our family travels, I pack a small bag with every medication we might need in the event someone gets sick – and someone always gets sick.
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Like many other sufferers, my IBS began with a severe bout of food poisoning.
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Before 1986 I used to crack up regularly, sometimes as often as once a year.
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Jennie Kermode takes a look at how the “mentally disabled” have been presented in film and what this tells us about society's attitudes towards them.
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My deepest and darkest fear is that I will be taking my son with me, and G-d forbid bring him home in a box.
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"Mental hyperactivity- What does that mean?" I braced myself for more bad news.
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The rest, as they say, is history. That history included events that nearly led to emergency choking procedures in local restaurants as locals tried to understand my actions. It included public events that were stopped in order to allow for my treatment...
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PSP is not considered fatal in and of itself, but basically reduces your expected remaining years of life by a half to two-thirds.
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The internet is what it is, and one of its charms is its freewheeling nature, but as a source of medical information it must be approached with caution.
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Hughie Lewis was a mountain of a man, with massive thighs and powerful muscles, and he could lift, move, control matter in a way, it seemed to us, no one else could. As his daughters, my sister and I fancied him something of a superhero.
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And I’d be relieved after each rigorous workout. Unfortunately, the reassurance was good only for that day, and maybe the beginning of the next day. And then I was back to square one. The anxiety would return.
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Backstories- further information or musings on our article topics from the staff at You&Me-America's Medical Magazine. Statistics in Backstories are from US, UN and other government websites.
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I had never in my life felt so out of control of my own emotions.
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It is as if I can hear this 1-year-old child's thoughts: "I was named after a ‘Mzungu‘, a white person? This is Aimee?"
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Part of me is thrilled at the prospect of not starting each workday with an argument. But another part of me misses her feistiness already. The rest of my patients, so easygoing and cooperative, are almost boring by comparison.
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Backstories- further information or musings on our article topics from the staff at You&Me-America's Medical Magazine. Statistics in Backstories are from US, UN and other government websites.
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