Personal Narrative: Communicating With Diabetes

Week three in clinical was difficult for me, I had a great experience overall but I hated seeing and holding a baby that had passed away at 21 weeks. To know what the family could possibly be going through was heartbreaking. I wouldn’t exactly know what to do if I was with the patient and her family exactly. I do know that I did place her in the room when she was admitted to triage. I do feel good about seeing the scenario play out, while being a student rather than being in the field alone. Other than that I was able to see the beginning stage of labor as well as a C-section. Everyone was so bent out of shape on making sure I eat and that I don’t faint, but it seriously wasn’t bad. As a matter of fact I was too intrigued with the mother rather

I fight for my health every day in ways most people do not understand I lay in bed struggling just to get up in the morning only to get faced with a new day of troubles. All I think about is the day that being a normal eighteen year old ended for me. I was responsible went to work every day, and was trying to figure out my first year of college until everything was flipped upside down.

Do you know someone who is or was gravely affected by a disease? I do. My brother, Billy, was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes (T1D) when I was 10 years old. When we first realized that he was not feeling okay, we were at school when one of my friends’ mom noticed and told my mom. Before this incident, I was irresponsible and did not pay much attention to anyone other than myself.

When I woke up on April 3rd, 2011, I didn’t expect that later in the day, my whole life would be changed forever. I was aware, however that something was wrong.

There once was a time when when I had so much self doubt it could fill an entire ocean, it was the 4th grade, and it all started by a kid named Joe, Joe was the meanest kid in school, Joe wasn’t just a kid he was like some super villain, and I guess in this particular story the superhero doesn’t win. It was the first day of the 4th grade, I walked in as confident as ever, because of my brand new fire truck red cape and a blue rubber mask, as I walked into school Joe lll approached me and said

April 20th, 2010 is a date that will be forever engraved into my mind. It was it was the day I was diagnosed with diabetes. Diabetes is when the pancreas stops producing insulin. There are two types, type one is when your pancreas does not produce any insulin. Type two is when your body produces some insulin, but not enough, If you have type one, you have to inject yourself with insulin, but when you have type two you generally only have to take a pill. Insulin was originally taken from pigs, but as technology has advanced it is now made in a lab. Insulin - A protein, pancreatic hormone secreted by the beta cells of the islets of Langerhans that Is essential, especially for the metabolism of carbohydrates and the regulation of glucose levels

When I was five, I was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes. Even though this was a truly terrible event in my life, there were people who were extremely helpful to me. Obviously, my parents, other family, and friends helped me through the situation, but I am eternally grateful to the nurses. They made me feel like everything was going to be ok as it was happening in the moment. They were the reason I made it through the ordeal. Since then, I could always picture myself going into nursing so that one day, I can be that same trusted support system for someone else.

Now for the generous bunch in society I have excellent news. Remember last month at the diabetes fundraiser where you wanted to contribute a large sum of money; let’s say you wanted to contribute $2000 however decided instead that it would be wiser to contribute $1000. Albeit, at the time it may have seemed to be the right decision I’m here to explain why it is more feasible to donate twice the amount with it being even more fiscally responsible than donating half the amount. How is this possible? Let me explain. Now let’s consider two scenarios, the former being the more applicable one and the latter being more conspicuous however still considerable. Now imagine donating for the first time to a youth fundraiser, Being that you’re a first

My clinical project is currently in the implementation phase, and my project objectives are being met on time. My clinical project is projected to be complete on time. The initial reception from the nursing staff was better than expected. I feel this is due to several nurses have worked or currently work at other health care systems that have multidisciplinary sections that must be filled out by all disciplines in order to finalize and print the patient’s discharge instructions. This computerized step is a safety feature that helps ensure all patient education, and follow-up care is addressed prior to discharge. Staying focused and keeping my goal narrow has been the most challenging part of this project.

My score is 239, which means I am at a moderate life crisis. According to Holmes-Rahe scale, I have a 50% chance of illness such as a headache, diabetes, fatigue, hypertension, chest, back pain, ulcer and infectious disease. I happen to have frequent headaches that appear to be stress headaches, and I was diagnosed with diabetes six months ago. Currently, having increased fatigue, maybe due to the lack of sleep. Additionally, started taking omeprazole six months ago due to a right mid-abdominal pain that my doctor believe could be an ulcer. I made changes in my eating habits and lifestyle when diagnosed with diabetes; however, I have long ways to achieving wellness.

Back in July I found out that I have diabetes, and ever since that day I’ve been trying to figure out what I can do to change my life. I’m not going to act like I haven’t looked for quick fixes, because I most definitely did. I am not going to say that I have been making all the right choices since I found out, because I most certainly have not, but I am definitely searching for the way. My current goals are to make sure I get my A1C down to below 7%, lose 20 pounds, and change my eating habits. The first thing that I need to do is slowly wean myself off to many high sugar, and high carb food items. I do not need to eliminate them completely from my diet, but they should be consumed at a minimum. After I wean myself I can focus on adding higher

During my clinical experience today, it was filled with knowledge and a bit of sadness. This morning I got paired with Nurse Rachel, she was ready to go about her day and so was I, when we do rounds with the previous nurse we both notices a patient crying and very upset to the room across from us. As we enter the room to see what was going on she told us to go away. The nurse that was there that night told us she was very demanding and cried for everything. Rachel told me after she gets the report from the previous nurse, we would go in that room first. As we enter the room once again Rachel introduced herself and as did I, the patient say she was in extreme pain and no one had given her medication. As the day when I researched her history

The topic that interests me the most is disease prevention. My son was born with a developmental learning delay and sensory processing disorder. It hasn’t severely affected his ability to learn and socialize because he received different types of therapy since the age of 2-½. Since that time I was interested in researching the causes, symptoms and treatments of these disorders in order to support him socially and academically. My interest in disease prevention became more fascinating when some of my relatives and close friends informed me that they were battling different types of diseases such as breast cancer, type 2 diabetes, hypertension, alcoholism, opioid addiction, depression, psoriasis, tachycardia and Paget’s disease. I wanted to

When I met a friend in my junior year of high school, I discovered a curiosity and passion for learning that I never saw in myself before. You see, my friend has chronic illnesses, and her daily life was full of pain, emotions, and falling! I couldn't help but ask about her lifestyle and conditions, and she wholeheartedly told me about how she had grown up losing her athleticism and strength and struggled to get diagnoses for her many conditions such as gastroparesis, Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, and postural orthostatic tachychardia syndrome, shortened as POTS. These conditions all make her life extremely difficult; She had difficulty digesting food, as her stomach was partially paralyzed, she constantly dislocated joints and damaged nerves, causing her to become prone to falling, and she had trouble walking for even short periods of time without passing out. Learning about her conditions made me wonder - how could she possibly enjoy life with all of her hardships and unanswered questions? She then told me about her journey of getting answers. As a relatively young patient, it was difficult to find doctors who were both knowledgeable about her illnesses and willing to believe that she actually suffered from so many. She grumbled about rude doctors, and happily raved about the kind and patient ones! Seeing how health professionals had affected her life depending on their willingness to learn inspired me to also pursue a career in health, which brings

I didn't know at the start that the live with that we had to do a "Live With" that kept to the weekly topic. I assumed that we just had to do a live with that could be on anything as long as we tried to achieve our goal during the week. I switched my "Live With" for this week to try to make at least three people laugh everyday. This live with wasn't as hard as I thought it would be. It wasn't as challenging as I thought it would be because I make people laugh on a regular basis. It was challenging only on a few days out of the week. This Live With was only challenging when I wasn't in a good mood. When I wasn't in a very good mood I struggled to make others laugh because I wasn't happy myself. Other than the days when I wasn't in a good mood