Quadriplegic Family

Many people these days take their health and body for granted. Imagine losing the ability to walk suddenly due to an accident or a disease. This is exactly what had happened to Nancy Mairs, author of the essay “On Being a Cripple.” She herself had lost her ability to walk normally when she was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis or MS, a chronic disease that attacks the central nervous system. Her essay talks about her life and dealing with MS. The purpose of the essay is to show how being crippled affects your life and how to stay positive and deal with it.

One night, my grandmother sprained her ankle quite badly on her way out from the bathroom. I saw my grandmother grimace in pain. I held her hands, cleaned her up, and hoped the pain she felt would stop. However, I was not trained enough to assist her. I took her to her normal podiatry clinic for the first time.

His parents were immigrants from Italy, they came to the United States looking for a better life. When he was young he was diagnosed with spinal meningitis. His body was strong enough to get rid of the disease but it left him paralyzed and deaf. His older brothers helped him gain some muscle back in his legs by dragging him up and down an alley until he was able to walk on his own after that they took him to the beach to swim helping his muscles grow and within a year he could walk.

The writer of “On Being a Cripple” by Nancy Mairs, describes her life as difficult, but not entirely worth the cure. The writer struggles with multiple sclerosis, a chronic degenerative disease of the central nervous system, in which had weakened the left side of her body into wearing a cane. She experiences society pressures, false interactions, and many hard situations of having a body that hardly works. However, she carefully names herself as a “cripple”, and remains proud with being just that. The author never had any control over receiving this disease, however she had enough control in order to keep living with it.

It gives us the image that it takes a lot of effort for them to move.

The featured film documentary called ‘Murder Ball’ directed by Dana Ruben and Alex Shapiro focuses on Mark Zupan and Joe Soares life of a Quadriplegic person. I have responded to the main characters and their situations including how they make me feel about the lives of Quadriplegic people and how they deal with it during their lifetime. My overall impressions about Mark Zupan and Joe Soares lives as a quadriplegic has encouraged me to respond not to feel sorry for them but to gain respect and be inspired .I will be discussing the film techniques to support my ideas in the documentary.

After the accident, Nathaniel is immobile and even after correcting the multiple breaks within his leg, Nate will never be able to walk properly. The book relates to any individuals that have and/or know individuals with physical or mobility impairments. Students are able to comprehend that individuals are not always born with certain disabilities, but can develop them later in life.

Shannon Miller was born in Rolla, Missouri on March 10, 1977. She was the second child out of three children. Her Parents are Ron and Claudia Miller. In 1977 the Miller’s moved to Edmond Oklahoma. Miller’s father accepted a job at the University of Central Oklahoma. When Miller visited the doctor her pediatrician noticed that her legs were not growing straight, instead they were turning. An orthopedic surgeon advised that she should wear leg braces for a year. Miller’s parents and doctors were afraid that she wouldn’t be able to learn how to crawl or walk. But gladly she developed like normally.

There was something strange that strongly stood out when Jeannie Peeper was born in 1958: her big toes were short and crooked. Two months after her birth, a round swelling surfaced on the back of the her head. Her parents didn’t know the cause of it, and after a few days, it disappeared. Then, the Peeper’s mother noticed that she couldn’t open her mouth as wide as her siblings. After taking her to many different doctors, Mayo Clinic discovered that she had a rare disorder. This diagnosis meant that over her lifetime, she would develop a second skeleton, and she would begin to grow new bones that would stretch across her body and some that would fuse to her original skeleton, causing her locked into immobility, within a few years. The Mayo doctors told Peeper’s parents that she would not live long. As she grew older, she realized that she could no longer fit her left hand through her sleeve, because it was locked in a backwards position due to a new bone that generated on her arm. Peeper was taken to the doctors to take a muscle biopsy from her left forearm and had to wear a cast for 6 weeks. Except, it made it worse, because the biopsy and the cast caused her elbow to grow a new bone that frozen the joint, making her unable to move it. Over the decade, as she grew more bones that stretched across her back, locked her right elbow, and froze her left hip, she became accustomed to the pain. Fortunately, she is still alive today with the disorder.

The article “Roles and Coping Strategies of Sons Caring for a Parent With Dementia” addresses the specific demographic of sons caring for a parent (or parent-in-law) with dementia and explores the roles and coping strategies of these individuals as well as the emotional impact that care giving has on them. The participants were recruited through information about the study that was provided to group participants and health care providers as well as paper and online flyers. The data was gathered using a semi-structured interview either over the phone or in person and these interviews were conducted over a two year span (from 2011-2013).

* try to make stepping movements if they are held upright with their feet on a firm surface

The picture of the Laetoli tracks were taken at an angle which skew the perception of them, but the distance between their strides can still be estimated. The strides my friend and I took have a distance between foot prints similar to those of the Laetoli tracks. The distance between the two sets of tracks in the Laetoli prints coincide with the experimental tracks created by us. Our tracks were created by walking side by side at the same pace to create our foot prints. Therefore, we can hypothesize that the two Australopithecus afarensis were walking in a similar – if not the same – manner as the experimental

Discussion of family presence during invasive procedures has been ongoing for many years. Some healthcare organizations have instituted policies to allow family members to be present during invasive procedures, which they would previously forbid during these procedures. Attitudes of healthcare provider’s differ drastically. (MacLean et al., 2003) This paper will illustrate the important benefits of having a family member present during these procedures. Terms used in this search includes: Pro family at bedside, Importance of family at bedside invasive procedure, Family centered car in the operating room and position statement on Family presence. The following articles were deemed appropriate for this paper.

Afflicted by left-side Hemiplegia and bound to a wheelchair, my grandmother’s life was not one of ease. By the time I was born she had been living with her barriers for thirty years and had learned to compensate due to her astounding will and surrounding subpar medical practices. As a child I thought nothing of the fact that my grandmother was stricken with paralysis until I witnessed her take a turn for the worse and suffer another hemorrhagic stroke. Her recovery was long and arduous yet, it was a blessing that brought us closer together and nudged me down the path of Occupational Therapy.

Vestigial traits are evidence as remnants of past natural adaptations. These traits are no longer needed for the current lifestyle and environmental niche of the organism. Humans possess several vestigial traits that are no longer effective or useful, such as the erector pili. These smooth muscle fibers contract and lead to which are caused by erect hair follicles. This reflex often happens when the organisms is frightened or threatened. In animals with a fur coat this can cause their fur to expand which can help to trap heat, or appear larger to a potential predator. However, humans now lack the fur of a once possible ancestor, but still retain the reflex.