Shot Staying Alive With Diabetes Book Review

Living with a chronic condition not only effects the individual, but it effects the entire family. An adolescent living with a chronic health condition not only depends on their family for support, but also on support from their friends, classmates, and healthcare team (Rostami, Parsa-Yekta, Najafi Ghezeljeh, & Vanaki, 2014). Supporting an individual with a chronic disease leaves an emotional impact and can be financially straining as well. Families living with a sick child must find strategies to cope. Whether the coping strategies utilized are positive or negative, they leave a lasting effect on the entire family, as well as the child living with the condition (Woodson, Thakkar, Burbage, Kichler, & Nabors, 2015). Involvement of the parents in this situation is vital to the child’s future success in managing their illness (Landers, Friedrich, Jawad, & Miller, 2016). This paper will explore one family’s story of living with, and coping with, a child who has recently been diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes (T1D).

Researcher James Levin’s “Poverty and Obesity in the U.S” from American Diabetes Association, research about the Obesity and Diabetes in Poverty counties/reigns of the United States. Levin believes poverty and obesity are linked to each other. According to Levin’s research “ People in America who live in the most poverty-dense counties are those most prone to obesity. ” . There are many reason that link poverty to obesity, but Levin believes lack of fresh food and inactivity has a huge role in chronic metabolic disease (obesity and diabetes), and cardiovascular death. People who

When a child has diabetes, the entire family is impacted⁴. Developing an effective support system for parents is essential. Reportedly, the highest levels of stress occur during the first year of diagnosis and may lessen in the years following diagnosis as parents develop coping mechanisms¹⁰. The resulting higher levels of stress and increased perception of the burden of caring for a child may lead to negative coping mechanisms such as avoidance or emotional distance¹¹.

The book I chose to read is Bull Rider it is written by Suzanne williams. The book Bull Rider has 128 pages it took me about 1 day to read the entire book. I learned that when times are tough and it is hard to get out of bed in the morning you have to grit your teeth put your feet on the floor and keep stepping forward or the world is going to pass you by.

This is the type of book which truly makes you stop and think about the life you are living. For me, I have been spending the last year worrying about my grandfather, who has been battling with the diagnosis of Stage IV Hodgkin’s Lymphoma. This book really hit home with me, reminding me what my grandfather has gone through and how lucky my family is to be where we are today. At this point in time, my grandfather is cancer free, and every day I remind myself that we truly cannot take anything for granted. This book hits that idea exactly on the head that we truly cannot take anything for

The book I chose for my book review is How the Other Half Lives by Jacobs Riis. Jacob Riis was a Danish American journalist who was considered a “mudrucker” and had a hobby of documenting certain things with photographs. He is actually considered one of the fathers of photography because he incorporated flash. His book demonstrated the horrible living conditions of poor people by writing and photographing the tenements that they lived in. The purpose of his book was to enlighten the middle and upper class with the reality of the horrible living conditions poor people were forced to live in.

For me, that series was the Junie B. Jones series by Barbara Parks. Not only was the book funny, but also full of life lessons to learn from. Appreciating the “little things” in life is one of the ways this book has impacted me. Sometimes we constantly are looking at the larger picture of life and not taking the time to appreciate the small deeds people do for others. Junie B. Jones has also impacted me by always staying true to myself. No matter how many times she acted different or stood out in a crowd, she embraced herself, therefore; she was not going to change for anyone and that is a great quality to have in

My book Across the Wide and Lonesome Prairie, was writing by Kristina Gregory. I choose this book, because I thought it would be cool to read about a girl traveling the Oregon Trail back in 1847.

Scott Russell Sanders wrote “Under the Influence,” a memoir depicting his alcoholic father whose many drunk dysfunctional states affected his life. Whose haunting demons from his death leaves Sanders with a guilt that, “...burns like acid in my veins,” (252) in certain moods. Like Sanders, I was left feeling anxious and guilty after the knowledge of Daniel’s, my older brother, diagnosis of Type 1 Diabetes in 2011. At the age of 13, he was admitted into the hospital hooked up to various machines and their wires poking at him in different places on his body. As a younger sister, the anxiety I had about his health made me more concerned, leaving him to feel like a burden.

My niece Mikah Bradford was born October 13th, 1988. She was born prematurely. Mikah spent the first month of her life in a neonatal incubator. My second oldest sister Crystal sat by her side the whole time singing to her. I was born May 18th, 1990. Mikah and I grew up as if we were sisters. The year she turned thirteen she was diagnosed with Juvenile Diabetes. The doctors did not want to scare her too bad with the diagnosis, but looking back now they should have. Mikah kept eating what she wanted and gaining more weight. By the time Mikah turned twenty-one her doctors did not like the way her body was causing her pain. A few months after she turned twenty-one Mikah suffered a server diabetic attack.

My favorite reading was, Parable of the Sower, by Octavia Butler hands down. I believe the connection that was made with real life situations such as the Berlin wall of the Cold War or the 1992 Los Angeles Rebellion in which was a very interesting and knowledegable aspect to adhere upon.

My instructor showed empathy toward the patients with diabetes; she emphasized her understanding on how challenging the diabetes disease process can be and the importance of following a healthy diet and the medication schedule. As a diabetes educator, she offered us valuable resources and also emphasized the need for more diabetes educators while encouraging those of us who were thinking about it as a career path.

Our family’s life is completely different than others due to my mom’s disease, but I have known no other way of living. My mother has had M.S. since she was in college, so I was born into a world with motorized scooters and walkers and extra precautions. This is my norm. And while other people may pity my mother and our family, I see no reason to be down. I could spend all my time harping on the drawbacks and my ”missed opportunities,“ but what fun would that be? I will always find the silver lining.

This was my favorite due to the fact that it allowed for a connection between each story as well as showed a possible progression of the disease. Secondly, it showed many different ways an animal can get affected by this disease. This allowed for a broader scope of understanding as it showed that there was more than one symptom, when it come to this disease. I also really enjoyed the progression of book as it when chronologically, when it came to the instances. This allowed for a cohesive understanding of the material as well as a more collective though when it came to the disease itself.

I chose the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling because I’d been wanting to read the Harry Potter series for a while and finally got around to it this year. It was that and that two of my close friends are huge fans of it and had been nagging since forever to read the books.