The doctor cleared his throat. “I’m sorry, but I have bad news.” He paused, looking down at the floor. He looked back up at her. He started to say something and then stopped, looking back down at the floor. That’s when Pat began to cry. She’d argued with herself about even coming to the doctor’s office. Her baby was a year old, and he hadn’t started crawling yet. He tried, yes, dragging his legs behind him as he struggled to make it just a few feet on the floor, but it didn’t look right. Everyone told her that she was worrying over nothing, and maybe she was, but she told herself that she would take him to the doctor, just to be safe . . . “Your son has a neuromuscular disorder called Spinal Muscular Atrophy,” the doctor said. “It’s a form of muscular dystrophy that primarily affects children.” …show more content…
Everyone had told her she was silly. She had hoped she was wrong, prayed she was wrong, but still . . . she knew. “What’s going to happen to him?” she managed to say. “Where most children grow stronger as they get older, your son is going to get weaker. He’ll lose the ability to move. He’ll lose the ability to breathe on his own. And one day, he’ll catch an infection that will spread into his respiratory system, giving him severe pneumonia . . .” She held up her hand to stop him. “You’re saying he is going to die?” He nodded. “There are three types of SMA. Caught this early, your son almost certainly has Type I. Most children with Type I die of pneumonia before the age of two.” He paused. “I’m sorry.” Pat looked up into his face and saw that he really was sorry. It made her angry. Not because of his pity, but because in this man’s eyes, her baby was already dead. “Don’t be sorry,” Pat said, wiping tears away from her face. Her voice was suddenly very calm.”He isn’t going to
All he wanted to do at that point was hug his mom and tell her everything was going to be alright, but he knew that anything he said wouldn’t calm a mom that lost a child. All he could do was hug her and grieve for the possible loss of his unborn sibling. Meanwhile, Dad and Scar were holding on to whatever they could. She then looked up at her dad with her eyes blue as the bluest crystals and asked, “Are we going to
He shuddered. ‘Apologize to Lizzie, now.’ His wife stood over him. ‘I’m sorry, Lisabeth,’
but he ended up crying. After Lizabeth heard her father cry, she got really angry and
In spite of what she said, he still sent her to rest and he quickly realized her concern about resting: “she threw up her meals undigested, and was manifestly worse…sometimes the [vomiting] was mere regurgitation, sometimes there was nausea and violent straining, with consequent extreme exhaustion” (Mitchell 245). Yet another example of how highly doctors thought of themselves. He did not even give a second thought to her comment and asked her to rest in spite of her pleading. As a result, she ended up in worse condition than when she started
She chose to let things go away so her father and she both feel better. “No, Baba. I didn’t say it right. It’s not that I can’t go with you.
he said. Loud and firm. Then his hand was in his mouth as if somehow he could stuff the word back inside. " The boy has suffered from his father action towards his mother, he automatically could not hold the tears back. " The boy felt his lip began to shudder, bit into it to keep from crying.
She was here to listen. He arched an eyebrow after his response, and awaited her reply. His fingers played with the tie, and Jarrod briefly closed his eyes to conjure an image of the Doctor with it wrapped around her neck, on all fours on the floor, before he re-opened them, and shook his head to clear his mind. It took a second for her words to register, and once they had, like the eager patient
I’m so sorry I hurt you,” he whispered. Charlie’s chin quivered as she looked at him with a shake of her head. “I’m the one that’s sorry.
“Are you injured? [Joana] asked. I tried to control it. I fought it. And then a single tear rolled down my cheek.
My life goal of being a nurse practitioner affected my choice of destination in history. If I could go back in time, I would go back to Hickory, North Carolina in June of 1944, which is only thirty minutes away from my home in Taylorsville, North Carolina. This small town became the center of the largest polio outbreak in the United States. “Polio” is short for “poliomyelitis”, a disease that targets the leg, arm, stomach and muscles of the back. If polio paralyzes the chest muscles of the victim, it can be fatal by not allowing the person to breathe.
“‘Are you dying for him?’ she whispered. ‘And his wife and child. Hush! Yes.’”
When I stepped into the doctor 's office I knew it wasn 't anything positive they had to say from the looks on their faces. Once at the office the doctor explained that at this point all we can do is show her how much her family care and love her, and suggested that she needed someone to take care of
After she drank, she tried to speak again. This time, she was able to tell Doctor Lane that they were bringing Jane to him. Then, she asked Mrs. Lane for a cup of strong coffee. After Mrs. Lane left the room, she turned to the doctor.
He placed his trunk on her stomach that carried their unborn calf, a calf he was certain he would never meet. “Samson, I-I’m sorry.” Phakamile said. “What are you sorry for? None of this is your fault.”