“Oh my Goddess John, It’s positive!” I choke out. “No way. There’s no way it’s positive.” “Why would I lie about this”, I argue, whipping the bathroom door open to find my son’s father holding our son, Chance, with the most bewildered look on his face. “Here, trade me,” I demanded as I took my son from his father and passed the man the positive, pink pregnancy test to confirm his doubts. Having another baby was the last thing either of us expected. This was our first and only week home in between Chance’s chemotherapy treatments since his had been diagnosis with Acute Myeloid Leukemia six weeks prior on October 6th, 2011. John and I had separated three weeks before Chance became sick; we were not even a couple anymore. This would be another …show more content…
During this pregnancy I was sick all of the time, I was hardly able to hold anything down for a long period of time, and I was unable to sit through a meal without having to excuse myself. If I ate too much, I threw up; if I didn’t eat enough the night before I would wake up with stomach pain and dry heaving. The nights were nearly sleepless before I picked my head up off of the pillow in the morning. I tried everything I could think of to curb the nausea, often times I would even throw up the anti-nausea medicine before it had time to work. With each one of my OB appointments I weighed less and the doctors were concerned that the baby’s growth would be affected; however, even with the weight loss, I was fortunate that she still grew at the normal …show more content…
I love the meaning behind a person’s name and I love uncommon names because I feel they resonate more than names you hear more frequently. I named my son Chance because it was not a name commonly used and meant, “Having good fortune”. I still had the baby name book from when I was pregnant with my son and decided to finger through it looking for ideas. I came across the page where I had listed possible girl names that had caught my attention and at the top of the list was the name Halo. That was it! I searched the pages looking for the meaning behind the name and found it means, “Having a blessed aura.” She had been my halo from the beginning, before I even knew what I had or how lucky I was, the name was so fitting! I played around with many middle names trying to fit in which one sounded best after Halo and before Rae, which was to be her second middle name. Ultimately it was my youngest sister that suggested I try using Scarlett and Halo Scarlett Rae became the name I chose for
In the news article “Abortion: Every Woman’s Rights” Sharon Smith wrote an article about women’s rights to get abortions prior to the hearing of the Planned Parenthood v. Casey court case, “which threatened to severely restrict women access to abortion” (Smith). Women wanted reproductive control over their lives and felt that they were not equal to men no matter what advances they got at work and how high their level of education was. The women’s right movement wanted women to have the choice of abortion for all women, the rich and the poor. In the US, thirty- seven states did not provide
“We were trying to get placed on the active transplant list, and that’s how we found out we were pregnant.”
The article “The Real Science of Abortion Drugs” by The Editorial Board discusses the changes made in the use of abortion pills, but in my opinion, there is a deeper meaning to the whole thing. I believe that this is a prime example of the dispute between Pro-Life vs Pro-Choice.
Many women that needed an abortion came to the program for help. Most of the women either did have money to afford an abortion or did not know any Doctor who was willing to do it for them. Jane gave hope for women who wanted an abortion.
Cancer is the one of those diseases which has high mortality rates in Pakistan. Most of these cases are diagnosed in advanced stages. Chemotherapy is one of the treatment components of cancer patients and electrolyte abnormalities are one of its common side effect. Electrolyte abnormalities are frequent and complicating element of cancer, these abnormalities may be due to underlying malignancy, a consequence of disease response or side effect of therapeutic agents, these side effects can be hazardous and fatal in some cases. This review presents the electrolyte abnormalities that can occur with the use of anticancer drugs. We have retrospectively reviewed the records of last 06 months of our admitted patients who were either admitted for longer regimes of chemotherapy or for the management of post chemotherapy side effects. In this review we have included total 110 patients out of which Breast, lung and colorectal cancers are leading malignancies followed by
"No!" "We need to check in before we do anything!" My father yelled at us. "Wait here." He
Hook : Many People in Thailand get cancer each year. Everyone knows cancer is often treated with some combination of radiation therapy, surgery, and chemotherapy.
He had used what I had left him to save his father, but it wasn’t enough. We had agreed that the surrogate’s family would die after the baby is born add she would soon follow. With him in dire need of more in his account to save his father, he had the surrogate’s family killed and was caught removing the bodies. Before I could find a way to get him out of trouble, somehow the surrogate learned about her family and jumped to her death taking the baby girl she was carrying with her. Oh, but there was still time to find another, but more tragedy came my
Some people diagnosed with cancer choose to opt out of conventional treatments like chemotherapy and radiation due to the damage they can cause to the body. They turn instead to alternative treatments such as nutrition therapy and vitamin therapy among many others. Some (but not all) of these treatments have been shown to shrink tumors and prolong life. Always check with your doctor before beginning any unconventional therapies.
Complains of not being able to have cigarette when he wants. Chest x-ray reveal a mass growing in lungs, confirmed as cancer. Chemotherapy is started immediately.
“I wish we could get up one day, summon everyone and say we’ve cured the disease, but it’s just not going to happen”(Bettelheim). These grim words speak loudly to anyone who has faced or facing this horrible disease. The diagnosis of cancer is one that is hard for anyone to absorb; knowing they have a long journey ahead of them filled with trying times and dark days. To someone facing this horrible disease the only comfort they have is the use of an outdated unsuccessful treatment practice of chemo therapy. Research shows that chemo therapy is ineffective for the treatment of cancer based of the statistical survival rate, harmful and lasting effects on the body, and the breakthrough of new research and treatment.
It’s obvious to me now. Suddenly, all of the dreams I had while I was pregnant—Annie dancing, swimming, loving music—were gone, leaving only questions: Why? What did I do wrong? Did I not pray hard enough? Annie’s diagnosis derailed me. I stopped reading to her. I stopped singing to her. This didn’t last, but it felt like a lifetime. It didn’t help that a professional came into my home and told me that she would
While radio- and/ or chemotherapeutic treatments are effective tools in treating certain cancers, a small population of cancer stem cells (CSC) can evade therapy which could be the reason for tumor recurrence and high rate of mortality. These CSC have the ability to bring the existence of new tumors and these are frequently found as multi-drug resistance (MDR) (Kawasaki et al., 2008). Chemotherapeutic drugs theoretically target the metastatic sites but current treatments do not exert significant therapeutic benefits in all cases (Soengas and Lowe 2003). Thus care should be taken to develop an alternative therapeutic strategy. Plant derived anticancer drugs are being considered more effective and safer for the patients, and do not have
In the fall of 2011, after five years of struggling with infertility, my husband and I found out we were expecting twins; Samuel and Abigail. At nineteen weeks I went into active labor. After four days, Samuel’s water broke. I was able to remain pregnant for eight more weeks. During this time I was daily told my son would die. It was unreasonable for me to grieve while hearing his heart beat and feeling his kicks. I had to choose hope. The twins arrived thirteen weeks too
There are many different type of cancers, there are also many different types of treatments. One of the most known types of treatments would be chemotherapy. Chemotherapy can be used for a wide range of different types of cancers and diseases, and each of the different types of cancers or diseases require a different group, and sometimes order, of chemicals to properly treat the cancer or disease. These chemicals include: Alkylating agents, Antimetabolites, Anthracyclines, Topoisomerase inhibitors, mitotic inhibitors, corticosteroids, and more. Each of these drugs previously listed have its own cancer type(s) or disease(s) that it can assist in treating. Some of these cancers include: Leukemia, Lymphoma, Hodgkin disease, multiple