Personal Narrative: Cerebral Palsy

My shift for taking care of my father starts right after my mother goes to bed which is around 11:30pm. My shift ends at 7am when the professional caregiver arrives to our house. This has been a hard-hitting time not only for my family but for me especially being that I am a new transfer student from community college to a university and working a part time job at a fitness center. Most days, I do not remember how I even drove to school and my job. It is as if some mornings sleep was a physical person and pinning my body to my bed not allowing me to wake

The hospital only allowed Dr. Sawyer to attempt this on one patient as a test, Leonard Lowe was chosen to be the test subject. Leonard had been diagnosed with sleeping disorder ever since he was a small boy, he had been asleep for 30 years before given L-Dopa. Dr, Sawyer gave Leonard L-Dopa and after many hours he awoke. He was able to walk, talk, and do everything such as a normal person could. The drug was able to awaken all the patients with the disease for a short amount of time.

I had to stay with them for about three weeks I always had to get up earlier than usual, and when I woke up my cousins woke up except for the eleven year old named grant who I would have to pick up out of his bed and take him to the kitchen so he could eat breakfast. In the end of all this though my mom got better and better she gained strength now she wants to get better by running and losing

As a five year old witnessing this chaos that we call a family, it did not seem all that bad; after all it was like a year long camping trip! But as I would soon come to realize this time would come to be one of the biggest physical traumas I have ever faced. Now I am getting ahead of myself, we need to rewind a couple months to where it all began. In May of 2005 my mom and dad came into our living room and turned off the television. Now in my house you don’t ever turn off the TV during an episode

Tick-tock. Tick-tock. I never realized just how quickly a minute could pass when I was only given 24 hours. Three weeks after my grandpa’s passing, my grandma had a massive stroke paralyzing most of her body. Due to my education, my family looked to me to understand the medical jargon.

On Christmas Eve my junior year of college, my grandpa and grandma on my mom’s side passed away in an accident. A week later, my older brother suffered from a psychotic episode and was admitted to a psychiatric hospital with symptoms of schizophrenia. Travelling back to school, I was physically and emotionally drained. This was hardest time of my life and the largest obstacle I have faced so far. I rely on my family for support and this foundation had been severely shaken; however, I did not have time to mourn and recover.

Living Arr: Jy 'nir is currently hospitalized at Trinitas Hospital, this is the third hospitalizations within the past 6 months. Jy 'nir is currently experiencing significant difficulties with controlling his anger. In addition, he makes suicidal statements (such as threaten to jump out of window to kill himself), physically aggressive towards others (hits and bites his brother and foster parent), destructive to property and is defiant towards authority figures at home and school. Prior to Jy’Nir hospitalization he resides in Plainfield NJ with resource parent Mr. Jordan; Bobbie Smith, youth biological brother and three foster siblings. Action: Mrs. Smith continues to be a positive support system to youth and his family.

Burke said he and Duke usually went together four or five times a day. For Mr. Burke, it was the second tragedy in just a few days: On Saturday, his wife, Eileen, died at home from pancreatic cancer after being sick for three years. It was Eileen, he said, who had taken a particular liking to Duke at the pound. “She fell in love with him at first sight,” Mr. Burke said. For several hours, the dog’s death was a mystery.

Kenny and Claire Sparks are a working-class couple living in Dayton, Texas. The Sparks have been trying to have a child for seven years, when they finally conceive, Claire automatically knows she is having a boy and names him Landon. On October 23rd 1988 when Claire was just six months pregnant when she started bleeding causing Landon to be born ten weeks early and weigh only 3lbs 5oz. Kenny visits Landon before he is airlifted to Hermann hospital when he notices a mass on his spine and know his son will not survive. Kenny is told about the life Landon will have if he survived the 2 pronged surgeries which given the severity of the lesion would be lifeless and bedridden anyway.

He lost his leg at the age of 12, lost his five-year-old daughter, and suffered chronic illness that left him bedridden in the hospital for two years. Despite his misfortune, William never let these tragic incidents stop him from loving life. When he was a child, he suffered from tuberculosis. It got so severe that the only way to save his life was to amputate

While I do not consider it a failure now at the time I was definitely frustrated with myself and considered it a failure. When I had to repeat my junior year I was mad at myself for not be able to complete the school year. As time went on I was able to focus on the positives in the situation and I was able to finally accept that I was not prepared for my senior year both emotionally and academically considering I missed so much school. If I did continue on to senior year I would not have been close to prepared as I am now for college. I ended up repeating my junior year due to the fact that I missed close to two-thirds of school due to a medical condition.