Ugh. I had almost finished my grocery shopping when I remembered. At least I was still in the store. Pushing my cart all the way to the back of the store again, I spotted the forgotten item. Well, actually, it was a case of forgotten items; 24 single serving bottles of water. No big deal. Right?
Wrong. It wouldn’t have been a big deal. But for a couple of weeks, I had been dealing with an aggravating ache in my upper right arm. The P.E. teacher at my school had diagnosed my pain as, most likely, a rotator cuff injury. I knew I couldn’t hoist the case of water into my cart with my left arm alone. So I grimaced and looked around to make sure that nobody was close enough to hear me groan as I struggled to get the case of water to the bottom rack of my cart. “OUCH!” I silently moaned.
Old woman. I’m just an old woman. I couldn’t help but feel a little sorry for myself. My husband would have helped me if I had asked him to come to the store with me. But I had just left a meeting at church and the store was a convenient stop on the way home. And I needed the water. I di...
Jr was out riding his bicycle, when a man by the name of Steve Matterson came around a corner too fast, tried to slam on brakes, but ended up hitting both Jr and his bike. Because Steve had put on his brakes, Jr only suffered scrapes and bruises. His bike however, was a mess. Jr cried for hours that day, his parents comforting him and telling him they would buy him a new one the next day. Th...
		Mattie, the sole owner of a shop named "Jesus is Lord Used Tires", was accustomed to changing and rotating tires everyday. One day she received a customer who had driven over some cracked glass pieces on the side of the road. Mattie took standard procedures by lifting the car, taking out the tire, and finally dipping it to see if air bubbles would come up. "I'm sorry to tell you, hon, these are bad. I can tell you right now these aren't going to hold a patch. They're shot through." (page 40). Mattie was exceptionally nice to Taylor and told her to come inside and have some coffee. After drinking a cup of coffee and giving Turtle some juice Mattie came up with the idea that Taylor could work for her. Taylor being the one who doesn't like tires in the first place accepted the generous offer, but went almost nuts with the huge tire wall that surrounded her. Taylor was a good worker and didn't have any real complaints about her position, but she still had a fear of exploding tires. This fear was noticeable to Mattie. Mattie being the rough-tough but nice person, asked Taylor nicely to follow her, when suddenly Mattie threw a 5-gallon Jerry can at her. "Knocked the wind out of you, but it didn't kill you, right?" "That's twenty-eight pounds of water. Twenty-eight pounds of air is about what you put into a tire. When it hits you, that's what it feels like." (page 81).
Curious about why an anxious old lady is along the highway hitchhiking, Joan gets an urge to stop and see if she could help. Upon her arrival, the 92 year old woman expresses she needs a ride three and half miles away.
¨I lay on my bed, confused and angry. That stuff my dad had said about an ankle injury - it was a lie¨. - pg. 28, Gym candy By. Carl Deuker.
middle of paper ... ... ries me that in this society old people are just ignored and forgotten about. Swept under the carpet. The old lady lost everything she loved.
Even though she is an elderly woman, she is still a strong and an independent person: "Quickly he checked her apartment for any signs of memory loss or depression. He found none and immediately felt relief. The apartment smelled of soap and Lysol, the signs of an old woman who wouldn't tolerate nonsense." (p. 116).
“Don’t be afraid,” he said. “Everything will be all right.” My doctor was there. That reassured me. I felt that in his presence, nothing serious could happen to me. Every one of his words was healing and every glance of his carried a message of hope. “It will hurt a little,” he said, “but it will pass. Be brave.” (79)
In the book The Invention Of Wings there were many themes written all over it. Though I found that the theme in this book is, everyone should be treated the same no matter the color of your skin. For example, in the book all of Mr. and Mrs. Grimke slaves were treated horrible. Unlike Sarah, at a very young age wasn’t blind on how badly the slaves were being treated. Sarah didn’t believe in any human being treated the way they were being treated. Action speaks louder then words and Sarah definitely proved that when she was given Handful, as her own personal handmaiden slave. Sahara treated Handful as if she was colorless almost like if color didn’t exist in her eyes. Even though Sarah had to be very cautious because she was still living under
My name is Mrs. Cleo Threadgoode, and I live at Rose Terrace Nursing Home. I am 86 years old. I have just made a new friend, and her name is Mrs. Evelyn Couch. She came into the visitors lounge and I started talking right to her. I’ll tell you what I told her too. In fact I’ll even tell you the whole story.
Since the United States first began developing and transporting nuclear weapons, there have been a number of accidents involving these weapons while in transport. The Department of Defense came up with a codeword for such events that could result in a nuclear detonation or release of radioactive materials, or the loss of a nuclear weapon: a Broken Arrow. Fortunately, due to the systems that have been put in place, there have been no accidental nuclear detonations on United States soil resulting from accidents in transport. That being said, it can still be considered rather unnerving to know that any one of these accidents could have resulted in a nuclear detonation that would have most certainly devastated the immediate and surrounding areas of the accident. One accident in particular, that occurred on April 11, 1950, was seen by a number of people who knew there was a nuclear weapon involved. Imagine being within a few miles of an aircraft accident, knowing there was a nuclear weapon on board, but not knowing if there would be a release of nuclear material in the crash.
Specifically, we reflected about how we should handle the cleaning of his legs. As stated above, our response to this situation was to work together while cleaning Brandon’s legs in order to provide effective hygiene care to appendages that are difficult for him to keep clean. Consequently, this reaction contributed to the scenario, as I was still able to complete a proper cleansing and assessment of the Brandon’s legs, prevent myself from obtaining an injury as a result of heavy lifting, as well as remind myself that challenges of some form will always accompany patient
Between running back and forth and drills, all that was on Cyprowski’s mind was a water break that never came. At the end of the practice he went to the locker room to shower, when he realized he was almost too sore to even move his arms. “My triceps hurt more than ever before,” Cyprowski said. After Cyprowski noticed his maple syrup colored urine, however, he knew something wasn’t right and that was when he ended up in the Intensive Care Unit...
She awoke to a terrible good news bad news situation. Good news, her neck fracture was stable. Bad news, her spine had been completely crushed. Crushed so badly that thousands of shards of bone were shot into her spinal cord, paralyzing her from the waist down. Doctors operated and were able to rebuild her spine, but the damage was permanent. Janine Shepherd, future Olympic medalist, would never ski and never walk again. Janine was in complete shock. She was an athlete. Being an athlete was the only thing she had ever
From this view, various methods can be implemented to improve the process of reporting a medical error and reducing the number of lawsuits made by patients. First, healthcare providers should ensure a stable provider-patient relationship that is attained through effective communication. Secondly, healthcare professionals should engage patients in discussions that explain the consequences of a medical therapy before subjecting an individual to the identified treatment procedure (Song et al., 2016). Alternative methods that can be used to resolve the issue of medical malpractice include training programs that make it easy for healthcare providers and family to meet following a medical error. Such programs facilitate communication of heartfelt acknowledgment by the physician. Also, the program promotes honest and open engagement between the victim and healthcare professionals. BICEPS (Brevity, Immediacy, Centrality, Expectancy, Proximity, Simplicity) model is an example of an effective framework that is utilized in healthcare institutions to resolve problems involving medical errors. The model puts more emphasis on resiliency, strength, and support, which encourage nurses, and physicians to address adverse medical occurrences (Monk et al.,
When I stepped into the large neatly organized white polished plane, I never though something would go wrong. I woke up and found myself on an extremely hot bright sunny desert island filled with shiny soft bright green palm trees containing rough bright yellow hard felt juicy apples. The simple strong plane I was in earlier shattered into little pieces of broken glass and metal when crashing onto the wet slimy coffee colored sand and burning with red orange colored flames. After my realization to this heart throbbing incident I began to run pressing my eight inch footsteps into the wet squishy slimy light brown sand looking in every direction with my wide open eyes filled with confusion in search of other survivors. After finding four other survivors we began moving our small petite weak legs fifty inches from the painful incident. Reaching our destination which was a tiny space filled with dark shade blocking the extreme heat coming from the bright blue sky, I felt my eyelids slowly moving down my light colored hazel eyes and found myself in a dream. I was awakened the next day from a grumbling noise coming from my empty stomach.