Electric Shocks: A Case Study

Ananda like Nina had lost his parents in an accident and went to Canada with his uncle, a successful dentist in Halifax to pursue his higher education. His loneliness and troubled memories of his parents were haunting him in the beginning and his stay with his uncle Dr Sharma’s family for a month made him realize that he was expected to be on his own. He shifted to his friend Gary’s place where he felt more comfortable and it was there he discovered that he has some sexual difficulties while he tried having sex with Sue, a friend of Gary. But he couldn’t accept it and associated it with only white girls. With his sister’s initiation he received a picture of Nina and visited India during the Christmas holiday and both were allowed to meet.

A video recording shows that the patient cannot engage in a lengthy conversation before the lungs flare-up, thereby causing breathing problems. In particular, the patient experiences an acute shortage of breath (SOB) (Holland 2014). A historical investigation of the present complaint alludes to a condition that has continued for the last six years. The present medical history shows that the patient has Type 2 IDDM and mild right knee osteoarthritis, besides the emphysema. Initially, the patient used to smoke, but has since stopped the habit.

“Who, in this tired and overworked family, would have had time to give more attention to Gregor than was absolutely necessary? The household budget became even more smaller; so now the maid was dismissed;.... They carried out absolutely everything that the world expects from poor people, Gregor's father brought bank employees their breakfast, his mother sacrificed herself by washing clothes for strangers, his sister ran back and forth behind her desk at the behest of the customers, but they just did not have the strength to do any more. And the injury in Gregor's back began to hurt as much as when it was new” (Kafka 33). The Samsa also sold their jewelries.

He was born August 20th 1890, in Providence, Rhode Island. He was a sickly child who stayed home from school often, he did attend Hope High School but he had to drop out due to several nervous breakdowns. His father was a traveling salesman until he was institutionalized in Butler Hospital in Providence in 1893 because of untreated syphilis, and he later died in the institution in 1898. None of Lovecrafts works were really published or even really recognized, except for a few short stories and a couple of newspaper articles on astronomy, until after his death because Lovecraft was way too modest to self promote his work. He was a recluse for several years and he was very socially isolated, however he was estimated to write over 100,000 letters to friends, family, and colleges.

Do you ever tire? God, look at you, iron is what you are made of. Here we all are, half dead with weariness falling asleep over the cars and you say no landing-no firm island earth where we could make a quiet supper”(pg;839 L162-168). Many storms came and went so instead of wanting to stay there for two days, they stayed for two months. Eurylochus got what he deserved because Odysseus told them to swear they wouldn 't eat the cattle and they all told Odysseus they wouldn 't. Eurylochus made the whole crew turn against Odysseus and disobey his orders.

She shows her low self-esteem referring to her leg when she tells Jim, “To me it sounded like-thunder!” (The Glass Menagerie 1.7.35-36). Not only does she have low self-esteem, but her self-esteem is so low that she could not handle finishing Business School as she drops out. Through Laura’s small lies to Amanda, her mother, Amanda finds out and explains while quoting Laura’s teacher, “ And she said, “….. The first time we gave a speed-test, she broke down completely- was sick at the stomach and almost had to be carried into the wash-room!...”.”

Her obsession grew so much that she was putting her entire salary on buying a forth wall-TV, even when her husband was still trying to pay for the third one. As a side effect of her obsession we can also see a certain type of constant memory loss, for example when she forgot that she tried to commit suicide or yet again the fact that it had only been two months since they had bought the third tv screen, "We 're already doing without a few things to pay for the third wall. It was put in only two months ago, remember?" "Is that all it was?" being the answer to his question (9, Bradbury), and the time Guy asked her if she remembered how they met and since she wasn’t able to remember she just tells him that “it doesn’t matter” (20, Bradbury) Mildred character represents all the citizens that lived in this society, she represents the efforts that a woman had to make to be considered beautiful.

Without a nurse as a wife and a pre-health student as a daughter to recognize that he could possibly be exhibiting signs of a stroke or diabetes, as a man that hates hospitals he would have carried on with life brushing off what his body was trying to tell him and faced more severe consequences. Similarly, my cousin in Cameroon gave birth to a beautiful boy named Aloysius about two years ago. At around 8 months, he exhibited signs of extreme malnourishment because all she was feeding him was crackers. She had stopped breastfeeding early, thinking it was an archaic practice. Without my mom using her nursing background to educate her on how to properly care for a newborn, Aloysius could have died.

After a month of searching for them, praying day and night, hoping for them to return, nothing seemed to help. After months he gave up on demanding to get his family back together. Nothing was helping acquire his family back as a whole.

Although Schatz and the narrator seem the same they are still very different. To begin with Schatz, he is actually sick with a fever of, “One hundred and two”while on the other hand the narrator thinks he is sick with inflammatory rheumatism that kills most children at his age (Hemingway 299).. In “A Day’s Wait” Schatz seems to not want his family to help him because he says, “You can 't come in,you mustn 't get what I have" (Hemingway 302). Yet the narrator in “Stolen Day” wants support from his family, “I was pretty sore at Mother. “If she really knew the truth, that I have the inflammatory rheumatism and I may just drop down dead any time, I 'll bet she wouldn 't care about that either," I thought” (Anderson 307).

Callie has not talked since her tragic incident and she avoids talking to the others in group including her teachers. On her first visit he brother Sam and mother came but her father didn’t. Her mother told her that the insurance would not cover self-inflicted injuries and that she might not be there much longer. That night she used a pie slicer from lunch to cut herself this time losing more blood than usual.

In 1966, while Dr. Oliver Sacks was on the staff of a New York hospital, he came across some very unusual patients. About a third of all victims died, and others could not sleep and so lost their lives as well. Still others fell into a deep coma in which they spent the rest of their lives. Ultimately, their long illness cost them a great deal because they never grew beyond the time almost fifty years before when they caught the disease.

From research on the internet on several medical websites, I found out this diagnosis is often given when the doctor has no idea what is wrong with you. Well, most of the time that is true. “The pain will go away in a couple of weeks,” they told me. “And if it doesn’t?” my mom

"I chatted with a Doctor once for around two hours and attempted to pass on to him my fears that I felt come overpowering savage driving forces. After one session I never saw the Doctor again and from that point forward I have been battling my mental turmoil alone and apparently without any result. " He then laid out his preparation to slaughter Kathy after he lifted her up from work that night despite the fact that he admits that he is not certain why he is going to do it other than to spare her from the shame of what he was anticipating doing. Whitman then confessed to executing his mom who as he would like to think never happy in life just like her due. He additionally requested a post-mortem after his death to check whether he had any physical issue that could have added to his issues.

He was a wreck his mom was to saddened to see him like this. A few weeks later she had enough so she signed him up for a police officer job. “I don’t want to do this, I’m a failure,” he said with a disappointing look on his face. “C 'mon this a new chapter just try it out,” his mom responded.