Ear Infection Essay

They had told my parent that a few of my red blood cells had a malfunction they started to break down. They had told my parents that I had something called sickle cell which is a group of disorders that cause red blood cells to become misshapen and break down. I never really understood what that meant but I just knew that I had a weak heart and that I never really played gym in school because they said I had “Limitations.” I never really knew what it meant but I just went along with it. A year later on March 11, 2008 I was back in the hospital because I needed surgery on my heart. I remember waking up after surgery and seeing my mom crying and asking my dad if I was going to die. I never really thought that was a possibility but I just pushed it to the back of my mind so I wouldn’t think about it. But turned out dieing was a possibility but I didn’t die, but the doctor told me that I could never be on a sports team and I could never play gym. I never really took it to the heart because I was only five I told myself that it was not the end of the world. That all changed a few months later and I was 6 now and it was a nice day on October 23 2008 and I was at the park with my dad and my older brother and they started to play baseball while I watched. After watching them play for a while I wanted to play so my dad pulled out a softball and a glove and I started to play on my own. I sucked at first but after a while I was really good. I remember on the same day I asked my dad if I could play on a team but she said no because of my “limitations.” Later that day I asked my mom and she took to play on a rec center team even though I wasn’t allowed and that's how it all started. And know I have played softball ever since and my

A couple days after I was born, my family learned that something was different about me. When the doctor performed the routine examination to assess my health, he discovered that I did not respond to loud noises. Usually, a baby would cry, but this was not the case for me. Eventually, I was diagnosed with hearing loss.

Early in my life I found myself at an immediate disadvantage compared to the average person. Within my first year on Earth, my ears caught an infection. During the time I had this infection, I never expressed any symptoms, like pain, that the infection should have caused. Because I never expressed any signs of discomfort, the ear infection would continue to accumulate. By the time a doctor diagnosed me with the infection, I had already had it for almost two years. I was around three at the time, an age that a normal child would begin to learn his or her first words from hearing his or her parents speak. However, my infection had grown to a point where I was practically deaf. The medical treatment would take around a year to fully cure me from

If I were to get into an accident, and had to choose which part of the brain I would be okay with being damaged, I think I would have to choose the Auditory Cortex. Damage to the Auditory Cortex in humans means the loss of awareness in sound. If the damage was severe there is a chance I would go completely deaf. However, there is the slight chance that I could still have reactions to sounds. I may still be able to tell the difference between high and low pitch frequencies in the sounds. I can also possibly be able to tell which direction a sound is coming from. There is also a chance it would cause me to have balance issues, and excessive ringing in the ears. Most of the time this type of damage is permeant. I think that I could handle the

As a child, I felt like a mutant with a horrible disease. I had a medical condition that no doctor could properly diagnose. I went to four different doctors and two specialists, yet not one could give me a straight forward answer as to why I feeling so horrible. Not only was I concerned, but so was my mother. At the age of five, I started what felt like countless tests to try to determine what was causing me to be in so much pain and be so nauseated that I would sleep on the bathroom.

Acute Otitis Media (AOM), inflammation or infection of the middle ear, is an illness most parents have had experience with. Countless hours of lost sleep and worry secondary to their child’s pain and distress can keep even the most seasoned parents awake at night. Before the age of 36 months, 83% of children will experience 1 or more ear infections and AOM is the most common reason for office visits of preschoolers in the United States (Zhou, Shefer, Kong & Nuorti, 2008). The graphic below serves as a review of evidence and explores the usefulness of the information in relation to the option of watchful waiting in the management of AOM.

Early on in my life, I was diagnosed with mild hearing loss which was thought to be caused by an autoimmune response initiated by the cytomegalovirus. Since, I have seen an audiologist at least every year to check up on my hearing status and to issue new hearing aids when I grew out of old ones. When I finally realized what my audiologist has done for me, I never stopped fanaticizing that I would one day be the one to save or even change someone’s life. Being a changed patient is one of the major motivations that have driven my desire to go into the professional medical field.

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A few years back it was the second week of grade seven I went to the bathroom and when I got out the right side of my body got a sharp pain. It happened just before dance class and I was running late already so I decided to just pop some advil. Halfway through the dance the advil started to wear off and I could tell because there was the sharp pain in my side again. I just shook it off and finished the class and then went home. I told myself it would go away tomorrow and if it didn’t i would get it looked at by a doctor. I woke up the next day and the pain didn’t go away it just got worse. Luckily it was Saturday so i went to the walk in clinic. The doctor looked me over and told me he thought I had a bladder or kidney infection and that I had to go to the hospital for some test and antibiotics of some sort. I didn’t find our rill I got to the hospital that they would give them to me through IV. It was funny before I walked into the walk in clinic I asked my mom ”do I have to get any needles”? and she replied no. But then here I was with these numbing patches stuck on the inside of my arms so I wouldn't feel the needle go in. I got the IV in and they hooked me up with the antibiotics.

Around the end of January I began to feel ill. I was becoming weaker, I couldn’t even stand in the shower by myself. I lost around 10 pounds too. In the beginning of February, I went to the doctor with my mom. The doctor said we shouldn’t worry about it and it was probably just the flu. She also took a couple blood tests just in case it was something else. My mom took me to work with her, because she didn’t want to leave me alone at home. Later on that day, the doctor called my mom and told her to bring me into the hospital as soon as possible. At the time I had no idea what diabetes was. I was only 8 years old. It was February 9, 2007, and I was diagnosed with Type One Diabetes. I ended up staying in the hospital for that whole week, and stayed

When they finally got a good job, my mom would have to miss work because of my doctor's appointments and surgeries. My very first surgery was really scary for me because I didn’t know if I was going to wake up. I always hated surgeries, I can’t remember how many surgeries I had but there were a lot. Some didn’t even work. All the test they would also do on me was horrible as well. The one I remember was when they had to put me on a wooden board with string holding me to it, I can’t really explain the feeling of it. But it was just horrible. Everything they did never did

Infection control is very important in the health care profession. Health care professionals, who do not practice proper infection control, allow themselves to become susceptible to a number of infections. Among the most dreaded of these infections are: hepatitis B (HBV), hepatitis C (HCV), and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Another infection which has more recently increased in prevalence is methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). These infections are all treated differently. Each infection has its own symptoms, classifications, and incubation periods. These infections are transmitted in very similar fashions, but they do not all target the same population.

According to Walker and Avant (1995), concept analysis allows nursing to examine the attributes or

Tonsillitis is inflammation of the tonsils, with particular reference to the palatine tonsils , two ovoid bodies of about 2,5 - 3,5 cm in length and two in width consist of lymphoid tissue and placed at the sides of the throat, immediately behind and above the base of the tongue. The tonsils are exposed to inflammation, usually viral, bacterial, more rarely, resulting in enlargement of themselves and with referred pain in the throat and in some cases ear.

Common head and neck surgery includes the removal of the voice box: largyngectomy and tracheostomy: making an incision on the anterior aspect of the neck and opening an airway through an incision in the trachea. The removal of the larynx occurs in cases of laryngeal cancer and in this case the airway is separated from the mouth, nose and oesophagus meaning that the patient will breathe through a stoma in the neck. In tracheostomy cases the resulting stoma can act as an airway and a tracheotomy tube is inserted, enabling the individual to breathe without the use of their nose and mouth.