The disease that Dale Maxin has is known as Parkinson Disease. This disease has affected Dale 's life in a very negative way. It has caused him much grief. Medication helped him to cope with Parkinson for a period of time, however; even the medication has reached a point where it n longer helps. His wife is who he has to depend on with help for everyday things. Because of Parkinson they cannot even go out and enjoy a simple dinner at a restaurant. Activities that they once did before he was diagnosed they no longer do. Parkinson disease has taken everything Dale has loved in life and forever changed it. The disease has given Dale many limitations with his movement. Even his speech due to the fact that it takes him awhile to speak a full sentence. With his movement his arms move non-stop or stay in one place. Sometimes he is stuck where he is sitting until he is able to move once again. This is how he was before he had a procedure. After the procedure he was like a new man. It was almost as if he had never had Parkinson disease to being with. He was able to play pool, which was his favorite game, again with smiled and without worry. Now he could perform everyday task himself without help. Dale looked at Parkinson disease as an incurable disease. He feared that he was going to have to live with it his whole …show more content…
It can turn a person 's whole world upside down. Throw them into a dark place leaving them with no hope and a since of helplessness. They believe they will never get better. They become insecure about themselves and even dislike themselves. It takes the joy right out of experiencing the world. They cannot enjoy the things they once loved to do. They try to avoid the company of others because they feel they are only pitied due to the disease. Even after all that there is hope to escape the dreadful darkness. Dale Maxin is proof of
ALS became known as “Lou Gehrig disease”. Gehrig said his final goodbyes to his fans and baseball on July 4, 1939, with a short tearful speech. " Today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth." Thanking his parents, wife,and teammates with "I might have been given a bad break, but I have an awful lot to live for. Thank you."
In the short story "Leaving the Iron Lung" Carter underlines how physical condition can limit someone from accomplishing their dreams. For example, when Pauline is shouting at the top of her lungs while watching hockey night in Canada provoking her mom to wind up furious at her, Agathe, Pauline's mother "[clicks] over the kitchen floor" to heave at Pauline who waits with her “[shrivel] legs”(84). The condition of Pauline's legs demonstrates that she can't run away from her baffled mother and therefore she is frozen on her favorite window seat. Her polio limits her from avoiding mischief she has caused. In addition, her shrivel legs uncover how her dream is stuck inside her .Hence, the author uses physical condition to reveal that it can limit
Finding Petey Petey, by Ben Mikaelsen, is the story of a man who grew up with cerebral palsy, but was misdiagnosed an idiot. Petey had a very long tough life and most people believed he could not think, but some people saw past his cerebral palsy and helped make his life special. First,there was Esteban, a small 17 year old Mexican boy. Petey was already eight years old and had been living at the infants ward for a long time when Estaban started working there.
Authors use rhetorical strategies to express themes in their writing. Different rhetorical strategies help convey different themes with varying degrees of effectiveness. One way to determine the effectiveness of an author’s style is to compare their works to another. In order to determine whether Nancy Mairs or James Baldwin is more effective, it is necessary to evaluate the two side by side.
Their physical damage shows through the symptoms they experience. The emotional damage of the mental diseases shows through the discrimination, the fear and the silence each character experiences as well. The lives of the characters change negatively through these diseases, but the new lives they are forced to seek provide them with more love and support than they ever received
The disease redrew her personal sketch, becoming something though physically lacking, yet resilient beyond comparison. By combining rhetorical strategies with rhetorical appeals, Mairs presents herself in a way that invokes an emotional response from the reader. After losing the ability to operate her legs properly, Mairs begins to declare herself a “cripple”. She proclaims this knowing people cringe whenever someone is called a cripple.
It can ruin friendships and families. If things aren’t going your way you need to think about the good days and not dwell in all of the
Nancy mairs makes a distinctive choice of diction when talking about her disease. When she introduces her disease to her readers she says, “I am a cripple. I
The MedicAlert bracelet on Da’s wrist was used to inform people and himself of his chronic mental impairment. As the story progressed, Da began to get confused with his past and Daniel. When Daniel was looking for Da, he saw him in the woods and chased after him, after Daniel caught Da, Da said “[k]ill me… [i]t’s about time you caught me” (Lynch 75). Based on this evidence and the diagnosis in the book, dementia is the disease that affected Da. His dementia not only made him forget, but it made him remember his past.
Yet today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of this earth” (Gehrig). It creates ethos because he lived with ALS and not everybody
Pheonix Jackson’s grandson is dead because she shows signs of dementia, she hesitates when asked about how the boy is doing, and she says words that imply the boy isn’t changing. The story “ A Worn Path” follows the difficult trip routinely made by Pheonix on foot to a nearby town for her grandson’s medicine which he needs for his swollen throat. Pheonix shows signs of dementia which would affect her perception of reality and her grandson being alive or dead. In the line, “At first she took it as a man,” referring to her encountering a scarecrow, Pheonix shows that her senses are inadequate enough to believe a scarecrow is a man dancing in a field (762). Pheonix is more reliant on her body remembering the trail than her sense of sight
The poet successfully illustrates the magnitude with which this disease can change its victim’s perspective about things and situations once familiar to
His intro is full of emotionally charged words and expressions that create a sympathetic image; Pacheco’s notes “Muhammad Ali Parkinson’s disease and how it changed bigger than life Ali to a slow moving and slow talking”(Pacheco 40), which was really moving because nobody thought that this would happen to the 3 time world champion who never skipped a beat. The image he evokes of the challenges and vulnerabilities of Muhammad Ali being affected with Parkinson’s disease, as well as the high emotions a person like Ali must of being suffering from a horrendous disease. His aim is particularly to show his credibility and input sympathy for Ali. Adding to this idea are words and expressions such as, humble, hero, humanitarian”(Pacheco). All these words excite positive emotions about Muhammed Ali’s contributions to society, which also makes the reader sympathize with people who suffer from Parkinson
They also suffer from their personal negative self-esteem that has an impact on their values and relationships with other people. This affects their desire to commit suicide and harm themselves. In addition, people with this disorder may also feel disconnected from their bodies, which results in the inexplicable feeling of guilt and paranoia. This disorder can be applied to Hamlet’s famous quote “To be, or not to
Jasmine Yard SPCH 1500 10/5/14 Topic: Bipolar Disorder General Purpose Statement: To inform. Specific Purposes Statement: To inform my peers of the severity of Bipolar Disorder. Central Idea: To inform my peers of the severity of Bipolar Disorder, including description, the causes and symptoms, the treatments and who is more likely to develop bipolar disorder.