One Last Breath

Youngest Brother Shoulders back, head up. Look him in the eyes. The slow, drawn-out breaths from the air-tank are the only sounds filling the room. No, someone sniffles, a tear runs down a cheek; it’s my mother, it’s my sister. Stay strong. His bloated stomach moves with the sounds, in and out, out of his control. His flat chest quivers, I can see his heart-beating, I can feel mine. His legs lay motionless for the first time in many years. He was always moving. Moving ships off the coast of Korea and Vietnam. Out of the orphanage, out of poverty. He carried his family across international borders, across state lines, always in the right direction. What do I have to carry? He was a hero. He is a hero. He doesn’t have long. Neither do I. 1, 2, 3, 4, 1, 2, 3, 4. Walk in step, be calm. My brother looks on from the couch, at the ground. My dad stands off to the side, breathing in unison with the air tank, his eyes trained on the life source. My mother and my sister hold each other close in the…

government. In the book Krik?Krak!, Edwidge Danticat illustrates that suffering is greater than shame and forces change. The concept of suffering is introduced to the reader in the story, Children of the Sea. This is a story of a boy and a girl who love each other. They write letters to one another talking about their situation. The girl is in Haiti with her father, living in fear of being killed by the government’s soldiers. The boy is on a boat heading to America because he had a talk show…

through this following around where she learns from her mother and realizes about her own self and even undergoes a change at the end of the story. The story is told in a semi-conversation between the daughter’s engraved memories of what her mother would tell her, and her own thoughts responding to her. At the same time, Danticat mentions in her interview she feels an insider/outsider type of relationship with her country Haiti which she feel she belongs to at times and oftentimes not.…

struggling with the effects of Hashimoto’s disease, GERD, anemia, vitamin deficiency, anxiety, and depression for years without a proper diagnosis and treatment program. Each year a doctor has prescribed something to relieve a symptom, such as an iron infusion for my anemia. But, the relief has been short-lived. Over the last year, I have pushed my doctors to do more testing and now have a combination of medications that manage some of the symptoms more effectively. However, my illnesses have…

Will Moody Psy-201-14 2015 The effects of General Anxiety and Panic attacks General anxiety is caused by a number of things, some of the main ones being over worrying about things, people with anxiety worry about common everyday things like money, health, work, and things we don 't even think of. This worrying and stressing over normal things can cause people to have panic attacks. General anxiety is a topic that many people not know about, but so many people have. This is a disease that…

The claimant testified that she has trouble breathing, anxiety, and depression. She has been taking Clonazepam and Wellbutrin since January of 2018. Her COPD and fibromyalgia has gotten worse. She has problems walking and talking. Her arms go numb. Anxiety, dust, and pollen make it harder for her to breath. She has Bursitis in her hips. She can vacuum but has to do one room at a time. She can stand for five to six minutes and sit for 15 minutes before her hips lock up. The heaviest she…

His skin appears to be clean, dry, and intact. He does not appear to have any skin tears, obvious dryness, or issues with temperature or color. Respiratory wise, Ben does not have any indicators of respiratory distress, including shortness of breath, dyspnea on exertion, use of accessory muscles, pursed-lip breathing, or use of the tripod position. His cardiac status also appears to be within normal limits as Ben does not experience any chest pain or signs and symptoms of heart issues including…

on presentation for both can be exactly the same. If you read carefully on this vignette, the scenario falls more likely toward being CHF-related than COPD-related, because of the physical findings of rales on auscultation, bilateral pitting edema, and jugulovenous jugular venous distention. Also in the history, she complains of orthopnea and leg swelling. Regardless, the two best tests to initiate with to decipher between the two is a chest X-Ray x-ray (CXR), ideally portable and upright, and a…

had a change in her job and now works as an assistant at an Artisan Bread Bakery. She had to take this job to help with finances. She could be behind on bills. She possibly took a pay cut. She is at a free clinic, so it is assumed that she lost her insurance. She is unable to pay for a lot of different tests. List any further questions you have for Margaret and link them to their respective differential diagnoses. Asthma Did you start having shortness of breath when you started to work at the…

Honors Period 2 14 Dec 2015 The Catcher in the Rye If a person had the opportunity to grow up, would they? Throughout the story The Catcher in the Rye Holden Caulfield goes through many challenges in the book. In the novel Holden struggles with internal conflict by seeing the adult world in its phoniness and it’s unbearable moments. Through the duration of the story what influences Holden Caulfield’s unreliability are his lies and deceits, his sexual identity, and his mental instability. While…