Nervously, I walked into the hospital like I do every year to get my yearly checkup. I was so afraid of what they were going to tell me because every time for the past five years that I have gone I have gained ten pounds each checkup and it feels as if for every every pound I gain there’s another health problem that comes with it. After waiting fifteen minutes in the waiting room it was finally my turn to get my checkup. My doctor, Dr.Miami told me to step on the scale before anything else to see how much weight I gained since my last checkup. I stepped on the scale and to my surprise I went from weighing two hundred and fifty pounds to two hundred and seventy pounds! “Wow” he said, “ I can already tell you that this checkup won’t turn out well.” Feeling both insulted and embarrassed we …show more content…
continued on with the checkup. “Okay now I want you to try to touch your toes.” Touch my toes?
That’s easy I thought to myself as I tried with all my might to do so, but sadly I couldn’t. I couldn’t do any of the simple task he asked me to do.next he checks my heart rate and blood pressure. He tells me I have a heart rate of one hundred and twenty beats per minute and a high blood pressure of one hundred and sixty over eighty! He tells me that if I don’t start taking better care of myself that I was going to die. After the checkup was over I went to my car and I sat there thinking about what he said. I decided that it was time for me to lose some weight and start working out. The only problem is I have no idea what I’m suppose to do. I get home and I go sit on my couch as I try to think of ways to lose weight when it hits me. I decided to order a treadmill online so I can use it everyday and lose weight. Three weeks later the treadmill gets here and I have gained five pounds just waiting for it to get here. Sadly I have no idea how to set it up so I decided to get a membership at planet fitness instead and workout there. I get to planet fitness and I see an unoccupied treadmill just calling my name to use
it. I got on the treadmill and I start going five miles per hour. Ten seconds later I was out of breath and ready to get off. As I was about to turn off the machine when all of a sudden my shoelace gets caught with the treadmill and it pulls me to the ground twisting and then eventually breaking my ankle. I pass out from the pain and wake up in the hospital. I was sad that I injured myself because it meant that I couldn’t workout anymore. I thought I was going to stay fat forever and die young until I came up with the perfect solution. I asked my doctor if I can have liposuction and just like that I looked and felt amazing. It just goes to show that if you set your mind to something it can come true.
A woman and her 8 month old son come into the hospital. The boy is very thin and wasted looking and the mother tells you he hasn’t been growing at all in the recent weeks. Through interviewing the woman, you discover that their family has come on hard times and in order to cut down on costs, she and her husband have been diluting the boy’s formula and have not yet introduced him to solid foods.
Raspberry gets an idea to clean elderly houses. Her friends complain when they go in the people homes but they have no choice but to stay because they get a lot of money. One day the girls was working and they finished and got their money. When Raspberry came home their door was open and all their furniture was gone. Raspberry ran into the house and went straight in her room. She checked under her bed and in her drawers but all her money was gone. Raspberry mom came home and all they can do is just cry. Dr.Mitchell called and Raspberry mom told him the story he rushed to the house as fast as he can. Raspberry mom was just crying and crying. Dr.Mitchel got a warm rag and put over Raspberry mom head and rubbed her back until she fell asleep. Raspberry knew this was the time to ask Dr.Mitchell some questions. She asked him about him and her momma
Annette was performing her usual head, neck, and oral exam on a patient and she found an enlarged thyroid. She recommended to the patient that she go see her primary care physician to get a better diagnosis. The patient went to her primary care physician and was told it was probably nothing. Later the patient returned to the dental office and saw Annette and told her what the physician said. Annette could not take that as a final answer and told her that she would not just leave it and should get a second opinion and have other test run. The patient went back
Over Thanksgiving Break, I had scheduled a doctor's appointment. The hospital that I go to is not big, but its the only one around so I knew there would be a good amount of people around to see me humiliate myself. I dressed for the occasion! Green jacket, and red tights. Of course I could never look like Buddy the Elf, but I got pretty close. When I walked into the hospital lobby, I noticed that there wasn’t anybody around, so I figured I would just have to do it a couple time in order to get some pretty good results. I...
It was a doctor looking for Kamryn which was my name, he asked me if I knew anyone named Olivia Hudspeth. I said yes “Do you have any news about her?” “Yes I found her” He replied. “Some of the ceiling had fallen on her legs.” The man said, “Is she okay?”
I’m actually kind of shocked I could write about recovery because it is a topic with a special meaning to myself. But, I found it easier to write about my own experience with a negative event this time, and I believe it is because I grew as a writer. I saw the value the personal testimony adds to a piece, and thus I could add my own story.
This weekend I was paired up with a nurse from the floating pull. It was a very interesting experience. For the first time since the beginning of the semester I can say that I was faced with a lot of critical thinking situations. I spend the day running around reminding my nurse of things he forgot or task we had to finish. It was already 2:00 pm and I still hadn’t performed an assessment on a patient, at this point I remember what Mrs. McAdams had said before “ we are in the hospital to help but our main priority is to learn and practice our skills” so I made the critical-thinking decision to tell my nurse that I needed to at least complete an assessment and since we were about to discharged a patient I could performed a final assessment on him before going home. I performed my assessment, had time to document and helped my nurse with the discharged. This weekend was a very challenging clinical for me but I also learned a lot. I learned to managed my time better, be proactive in my clinical experience and I also found my voice.
One day Nancy was at a football field. She was watching the Ravens VS. the Steelers. She was so happy and screaming and yelling. But at the 4th quarter she started to lose her voice. She then talked to her friend Jack, but nothing came out. Then Jack called the doc. He got there as fast as he could because he wanted to watch the game too. When he got there, there was only about 3 minutes left. When the doc examined her, He said “You need to take these medicines for at least 2 weeks.” Nancy said “Good, in 2 weeks there is another football game.” After that she watched the rest of the game with Doc and Jack. After the game when she went home she forgot the medicine at the game! She then had to turn around back to Pittsburgh. When she got there
Soaked under sweat, I stood on the running machine, took a deep breath, and counted in my mind, one…two… three, GO! With renewed power and confidence, I started to run again with satisfaction. This moment happened every day in last summer at a gym and I lost 62pounds. Had persisted for five months, I am so proud of myself that I am able to achieve the goal of losing weight and established high self-discipline. In addition, I have gained great appreciation for the challenges. However, I also have grown up from this, on the other hand, frustrated experience. Not because the process of losing weight was painful, but because my by-product of the weight loss journey, my online team.
My kids have had no childhood illnesses other than chickenpox, which they both contracted while still breastfeeding. They too grew up on a healthy diet, homegrown organics etc. Not to the same extent as I did, though, as I was not quite as strict as my mother, but they are both healthier than I have ever
One fateful day at the end of June in 1998 when I was spending some time at home; my mother came to me with the bad news: my parent's best friend, Tommy, had been diagnosed with brain cancer. He had been sick for some time and we all had anxiously been awaiting a prognosis. But none of us were ready for the bumpy roads that lay ahead: testing, surgery, chemotherapy, nausea, headaches, and fatigue. Even loud music would induce vomiting. He just felt all around lousy.
The doctor's office was crowded as I checked in at the front desk. "Do you have insurance?" the lady at the window asks several times before I realized she was talking to me. "I'm just here to talk to the doctor about my lab results" I squeaked, "Sign here, Please."
Back then, I didn’t understand why he needed all the paperwork and permission to help me out. It wasn’t until now that I took this class and learned that trainers need to be careful with paperwork, or they can get sued. I learned that there are many other reasons for which he couldn’t help me right away. As soon as he received all the paperwork that he needed, he gave me exercises to work on.
It was 3:00 pm when the built up excitement occurred. The last bell of the day stroked the clock, I would always be in a rush to place my materials away and meet my father always with a smile at the front of the school. The trip from my elementary school to the clinic felt like a decade. My dad was a dental surgeon who worked in a particular clinic composed of different doctors. At the entrance there was the help desk, Carmen siting behind it and always greeting you with a smile “Good afternoon Doctor.” Behind the front desk there was a hallway that hosted two doors on the right and two doors on the left. Through those doors there was a different kind doctor. The first door on the left contained a neurosurgeon doctor and the door behind it had a pediatric doctor. The first room on the right contained an orthodontic dentist
Health care administration provides a person with an opportunity to lead guide and manage in health systems. Health care administrators are not engaged in treating the patients in person, but they work actively behind the scenes making their best possible efforts for the betterment of the people. I got myself enrolled into this course because this was the only program that could challenge and bring the best in me refining my leadership, communication, administrative skills.