Osteopenia Character Development

Anthony Rabon is an amputee from Aynor, SC. He is a firm believer in faith and says everything happens for a reason. He lost his left leg during a four wheeler accident. It was 2:30am about 50-100 including two of his cousins. Out in the field in Aynor and they all were riding around until it was time to go home. Anthony had three separate ways to go home but he chose his way and it ended with him being hit by a drunk driver who also had drug in his system coming around a curve. The driver got thrown out of his truck resulting in him dying but Anthony lost a lot of blood and had to get eleven pint of blood in him they could not save his leg it had to get cut off.

Mike Fink was born with Spina Bifida which is incomplete closure of the spinal column during the first month of fetal development. He runs wheelchair basketball and is involved with Coastal Adoptive Sports. His parents taught him, he can do whatever he want to do. He has been doing jiu jitsu for 2 years and is a double white belt and has been competing in both able body and disability matches his record is 3-3. He can’t feel right leg and sometimes it gets in his way when he is competing. His coach has never coached someone with a disability. Mike was the first disable person he has coached.

The book called A Very Special Critter by Gina and Mercer Mayer is a book about a new kid named Alex coming to class who is in a wheelchair. One kid in the class was afraid because, he had never seen someone in a wheelchair before. The kid came into class the next day and everyone thought his wheelchair was super cool. Alex made a lot of friends. The book explains that know matter what disability a child has that there will always be someone there to support him/her. A child in their wheelchair may feel lonely and get down on their self because they are not like the other kids and can’t do what the rest of their friends are doing. However, that is not true, in today’s society, there are many sports and activities available for kids who have a disability.

“Steve, my oldest son, was born with cerebral palsy, which in his case meant both mental retardation and muscular spasticity. Although he has a tough time doing things that others find easy, he can manage most everyday things. When his mother reprimands him for bad manners, such as not using a knife to cut his food, he gets angry and says, “I can’t help it. I was born that way.” Whenever he says that, my heart goes out to him.

My best friend was a latchkey child, he used to go home after school to an empty house with no adult supervision from the 5th grade until the 8th grade. Prior to the 5th grade, he was an honor roll student and volunteered as a tutor for children in preschool and kindergarten. He was the ideal student, everybody knew of him and his successes at such a young age. During the 5th grade his parents had gotten new jobs due to financial issues and the presence of his parents in his personal life decreased. After school, he would return to an empty home and both of his parents would come home several hours after him. As time went by, he developed a decreased amount of interest in his academics and started focusing on other things such as meeting people afterschool. By the 7th grade, he was failing all his classes and started smoking cigarettes and his life continued to get worst. I lost contact with him after the 8th grade because I attended a different high school than him, but I still hear stories today about how he dropped out of high school and started doing more drugs. This whole experience was very depressing and changed my life completely because I lost my best friend to drugs just because he did not have an adult to take care of him after he got out of

People like Matthew Williams had friends and family to rely on when going through hard times in school. Since he had people to relate to and talk to, despite having no friends and struggling to keep his grades from sinking, Matthew aspired to be more than he was - and believed it was possible. Despite having so many things turned against him, Matthew found confidence and friends through the Special Olympics. This light at the end of the tunnel made him believe in himself and in his friends to stay healthy and achieve things many people assume those with intellectual disabilities are unable to do. If Matthew wasn’t supported by the people who watch the Special Olympics, and didn’t make the friends he has from it, he would be in a dark, sad place.

Both my brother, and Sundiata overcame their disabilities, and were able to rise up, and show that they are more then their disability, and who they are should not be discarded just because of their

Osteopetrosis is a rare, genetic disease that causes extremely dense and brittle bones. This is because individuals affected with osteopetrosis do not have normal osteoclasts, which bones need to work correctly. Healthy bones require properly functioning osteoblasts and osteoclasts. Osteoblasts are responsible for making new bones and osteoclasts are bone cells that are responsible for bone resorption, which is the breaking down of bones and providing space for new bone marrow to grow. An individual with osteopetrosis has osteoclasts that do not function properly, therefore their bones are not healthy (Stocks, Wang, Thompson, Stocks, & Horwitz, 1998).

I picked Jacob as my hero mainly because I don’t know anyone else that works so hard just to be able to live in our world. Then, on top of that, he has to fight his own mind because he’s smart enough to know he’s different, but not able to fully understand his autism or change it. He’s also unbelievably happy even when people are mean to him or look at him like he’s weird. He is my hero because even with a disability, he is somebody people should look up to. He is amazing. He is my brother. He is my

Osteogenesis imperfecta is a group of genetic disorders that mainly affect the bones. The term "osteogenesis imperfecta" means imperfect bone formation. People that suffer from this condition have bones that break or fracture easily; also giving it its more well-known name “brittle bone disease”. These bone fractures often occur from mild trauma or even with no apparent cause. There are eight recognized forms of osteogenesis imperfecta, they range from type I to type VIII. The types can be differentiated by their signs and symptoms, although the main characteristic features overlap between each other. Type I is the mildest form while type II is the most severe form of Osteogenesis imperfecta; the other types of this

Truthfully, as an undergraduate I knew very little about the osteopathic profession. In 2013, however, I began working as a medical scribe with Dr. Ghaffari-Greene, DO, in the Sibley ER and she opened my eyes to the beauty of osteopathic medicine. Thanks to Dr. Ghaffari-Greene, and a number of other osteopathic physicians in the ER, I have come to understand what osteopathic medicine is all about. Three years after my first exposure to the osteopathic profession, I continue to be motivated to become an osteopathic physician for many reasons. These include the following:

Picture this, there was a boy at my high school named Adrian. Adrian loved football and even more, he loved all the guys on the team. One year Adrian decided he was going to join the team. He was thrilled to tell all of the guys, but the feelings were not mutual. Instead the guys on the team made fun of Adrian and threw fits. All Adrian wanted was to go to practices, ride the bus to games, and just be apart of the team. The boys did not throw a fit because Adrian was bad at football, they threw a fit because Adrian has a mental disability. Although Adrian did not end up playing football, he eventually played a sport where he was welcomed and appreciated. Adrian fell in love with his new team so much, he wore his track shirt

There was this one time when this person at our school named Derrick stood up for someone and how it changed my perspective on things. He was that person’s hero. Today I will tell you why Derrick stood up for that kid, how it changed myself, and how it affected that kid. This kid that Derrick stood up for had some birth defects, but he tried to do what everyone else did even if it was ten times harder to do so. Derrick stood up for that kid because he was tired of that kid trying to succeed, but to only get put down in the dirt by other people.

Starting my junior year of high school, I became involved with Big Brothers and met a second grader named Isaiah, who joined the program because his mom was looking for a positive role model who could provide him with beneficial experiences. The first impression Isaiah made on me was that he likes football and basketball, as I do, and is actually very smart despite his struggling grades in school. Isaiah has no stable and positive male role models in his life, so I enjoy talking to him and taking him places that he would not otherwise have an opportunity to visit. Over the past year and a half, I know both Isaiah and I have been affected positively through our experiences together and his development into a kind young man has been the reason I continue to volunteer with him. To contribute to the movement of improving the lives of young underprivileged kids, I continue to work with the Big Brothers program and mentor Isaiah’s progression towards success in life. Furthermore, if I am able to practice medicine as I hope to eventually do, then I can really continue to help those children that have a need for medical assistance that don’t have the resources available to

A story when I had to help someone one would have to be my friend when he needed help back in high school I had friend who was in the same classes as I was he was going through a huge struggle in his life. His name will not be mention but he was a great kid who had great potential in school but he would live up to that potential since he was the youngest of his brothers he basically gave an idea of what his future had in store for him. He would always come late to class almost every single day and once he finally showed up to class late the teacher would ask him why he is always so late he just sits down at his desk and just lifts his shoulders up as his response this is basically is on par when the parents ran into some disastrous encounter on there way to visit her son at the asylum just like when he started to arrive late to class which was a huge effect on both of them. After a couple of more late appearances by him the teacher had enough she tries to help him just like the parents in the story when they go an visit their son with a gift to see how he is doing the teacher tried to help him up with some advice that was given to him to make him stop showing up late. There was a change that made me think in a different way since I had thought that he did not care about anything which bothered me since I believe that education was important but then an event happen that made me change my view and that I knew I had to help him to lift him from below the bar to above it. We