Medical Case Study: Rhonda Mullinax's Home

My interviewee is a fifty-three-year-old, white female named Kat Smith. Kat is the mother of two daughters and has been married to her husband for twenty-five years. She is a stay at home mom and lives a comfortable middle class lifestyle. Kat was diagnosed with at age forty-nine with uterine fibroids that resulted in a total hysterectomy. Previously Kat had lived in extreme pain for over fifteen years, she expected that something was wrong, however, the doctors that were treating Kat did not order an ultrasound and attributed her pain to her menstrual cycle.

They moved to Prince George because her mother thought that maybe she need a new environment, but this does not work. She still escape from her home. After that, Moran met Winnie and she found that Winnie is a quiet girl who does not like anyone. According to Moran (1992), “Winnie was in a self-destructive pattern and that something had to be done about it” (63). Before second meeting Winnie again ran away from home and she came back after four days.

Book Report #4 The book I read this quarter was Glory Be by Augusta Scattergood. Its Lexile level is 680. This book is about a 11-year old girl named Gloriana Hemphill, who now comprehends how much racism is a problem in her hometown in Mississippi in 1963. In this book Glory is overwhelmed with how her town is handling people who are different than they are. She realizes that her favorite local pool is closing down so colored people can’t swim with the whites.

McCorvey was unmarried, and already had a 5 year old daughter. Her mother had custody of her daughter, because she couldn’t afford to take care of her. McCorvey was working as a waitress, when she found out she was pregnant. She had previously worked with a traveling circus, selling tickets. She didn’t have any money, and felt like she wasn’t fit to care for a child.

Terri Schiavo was a 26 year old woman who collapsed at her home in February of 1990. Schiavo had no flow of oxygen to her brain for several minutes, causing her to fall into a persistent vegetative state. Although she was severely brain damaged, she still maintained a heartbeat with blood flow, and was able to see and move her limbs with impaired vision (Lynne, 2005).However, it was still necessary that Schiavo have a feeding tube to sustain her life. Terri 's husband believed that she would have wanted to be taken off life support and die a natural death, claiming he heard her say “If I ever have to be a burden to anybody, I don’t want to live like that.” (Lynne, 2005). Schiavo 's parents disagreed, arguing that Terri always executed a

55 years later, the death of one of the most famous American icons, Marilyn Monroe, is still a conspiracy. Marilyn Monroe (birth name Norma Jeane Mortenson) was born on the 1st of June, 1926 at the Los Angeles County Hospital. Marilyn never knew her father’s identity. Marilyn was placed in the care of a foster family, The Bolenders, as her mother Gladys Pearl Baker was mentally and financially unable to care for her. Marilyn was taken back into Gladys’ care when she was 7 years old as she eventually was able to stabilise her lifestyle.

DOI: 4/24/2015. Patient is a 40-year-old female ophthalmic assistant who sustained a work-related injury to her low back and bilateral forearms from catching a falling cart. Per ONI entry, she was diagnosed with scoliosis, work aggravated. She is status post right shoulder arthroscopic acromioplasty and distal claviculectomy on 5/13/16. Urine drug screen obtained on 10/06/16 showed positive for tramadol.

Due to her diabetes, her pancreas stopped producing insulin. Which was not acknowledged at her first trip to Taylorville Memorial Hospital. During the following weeks, my mother worked diligently to regain some of the deficits she lost from her stroke. I will not list her actual deficits, but she did suffer major losses. She was released from the hospital mid-September.

One question would be why was she on the roof and how did she fall from the roof? Maybe she wanted to intentionally fall from the roof. First, her mom is never around and working all the time. In the book McCreight introduces, “The worst part about their argument was that Kate had then ended up getting home the night before too late—late again, late always—“ (McCreight 12). This evaluates how her mom is never around and is always busy with her

Ms. Martin is a 14 year old female who presented to the ED after an altercation between her mother and she. She denies suicidal ideation, homicidal ideation, and symptoms of psychosis to nursing staff. At the time of the assessment Ms. Martin is calm and cooperative. She reports tonight her mother would not let her eat a pop-tart for dinner and she became anger and proceeded to hit her mother. Ms. Martin states she only gets angry at her mother and lashes out at her.