Personal Narrative: Diagnosis Unknown

Day four of clinicals was really long. The first patient was scheduled from 8 until 1, he was getting fitted for 4 crowns and an implant crown. When the patient came in he had a horrible odor and looked like he hasn’t taken care of himself in months. I seated him down and the dental assistant just glanced at his teeth and looked at me strangely and whispered come here and look. I look in this old man’s mouth and saw nothing but a brown layer of plaque and calculus build up and it disgusted me. How could someone not take care of their selves? Anyways, we ended up sending him to the hygienist's room next to us and they cleaned his teeth extra good. He came back into the room and Dr. Williams came in and quickly did a check up on his teeth and

I fight for my health every day in ways most people do not understand I lay in bed struggling just to get up in the morning only to get faced with a new day of troubles. All I think about is the day that being a normal eighteen year old ended for me. I was responsible went to work every day, and was trying to figure out my first year of college until everything was flipped upside down.

Not until recently, did I realize the insight of the saying “Life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get”. That mean life is a succession of surprise, that is to say it is random like a box of chocolate. You will never know what chocolates flavors are in the box until you taste it.

However, my junior year also held some troubles for me. In October, my cousin had a stroke and passed away. Visiting her in the hospital and attending her funeral brought back unresolved issues I had from my brother’s death in 2010. I didn't know how to cope, so I fell into a deep depression. I had no energy; it was like my brain wouldn’t let me do anything I used to enjoy. I stopped playing the piano after having played for ten years. I loved to run, but I stopped completely. I didn’t have the energy for either.

Not many things in life stay the say anymore. You can expect one thing to happen but then all of a sudden its turns out totally different. There is a quote that kind of speaks to me from a movie called forest Gump “life is like a box of chocolates you never know what you’re going to get”. It’s so true but we as humans, we adapt we take on these changes and we adapt to them. I’m going tell you about a big change for me about seven years ago the move that changed many things for me.

In my life I experienced many things and the most important thing that I learn is that life is like a box of chocolate . I say that life is like a box of chocolate like Forrest Gump said because, you never know what’s planned for you next. You don’t know if you're going to get a good outcome, or a bad outcome because it’s different flavors in chocolate. My freshman year of highschool I was lacking not doing my work and just slacking but, now I regret it because freshman year is the most important year of your high school years . In these 17 years of my life, it been has been like a box of chocolate I never knew what was going to be the outcome of me making the the decision I made my freshman year. If I would’ve did better my freshman year it wouldn’t be so hard how it was my 10th grade year.

I always grew up wondering, I don’t want life to change! I always thought that life was a perfectly planned event. I wake up, do this, go there, and eat that. But little did I know that my life would have a new, and very big change. Wonderfully big. I was only at the tender age of nine when my parents bought me the horrible news, or so I thought at the time. But life changed. Wonderfully. I remember the exact words.

My school life had changed when I came back, I was homeschooled for a little bit since I had missed so much school, when I went back I went to the classroom early so I wouldn't get pushed or shoved I left the classroom early or late so I wouldn't get pushed or shoved. The risk of raising my blood pressure the tiniest bit could mean deathly consequences for me. I had little to no friends because I was thought of weird. I wasn't able to go to P.E. or recess. When I went back to Iowa University Hospitals to get radio static surgery for treatment of the AVM the screws had left giant marks that needed to be cover by band-aids, So rest of second grade I wore two bandaids on my

“Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason.” (Jerry Seinfeld) Most people don’t know what life will bring or what road they will have to travel until that time comes. George never knew the only way he could save his best friend would be to kill him and Hamlet never knew he would die from being poisoned by my uncle and friend. All the trails and tribulations that you encounter are only to make you better person even if it’s bad. Personally I have been through a lot in 16 years. Some good and some bad but at the end it made me the young last that I am today. Your life experiences only prepare you for the real word. Three life experiences that made me who I am are Death of my uncle, my mom being ill and the switching of

I had such a great day at clinical yesterday. I was finally able to see a vaginal delivery and that entire process. When I arrived in the morning, the mom had just received Cytotec, to help induce labor and ripen her cervix. She was forty-one weeks and zero. Around ten thirty in the morning, she asked for her epidural to manage her pain. We bolused her with fifteen hundred milliliters of lactated ringers to prevent hypotension. Shane was the certified registered nurse anesthesiologist (CRNA) who administered the epidural. It was very cool watching him administer all the needed pain relief medication before he administered the epidural to make sure that it would be placed in the epidural space in the spine. Then administered a small test dose, waited till a few blood pressures were taken, then administered the remaining about through an epidural pump. After the epidural was administered, I was able to administer her foley catheter. I was so happy that I was finally able to place one. I learned a few tricks from Maura (my nurse) as well. She taught me that it was easier to take the top off of the lubricant syringe and to place the tip of the foley inside of the syringe, that way it will not wiggle around and become unsterile. She also taught me to grab from the bottom of the labia and pull up, that way it ensures that I will have a clear entrance to

My first week went really well! I was definately both nervous and excited on the first day. I was nervous because I wasn't sure how the clinic would run and I quickly learned that it is a very fast paced clinic. My CI sees patients every 15 minutes and he is both the only PT there and the owner of the clinic. I have been learning a lot about PT treatments as well as the buisness side of the PT clinic. He has a lot of PT aides that help with exercises and setting patients up with ice and stim ect. The fast paced clinic was definately something I had to get used to. I was a little overwhelmed when we would just start with a patient and a new patient would walk in the door. However, there is a very good flow in the clinic and everyone is always

My life just like everyone else on this crazy rollercoaster has been filled with lots of ups, lots of downs, and quite a few unexpected corkscrews. For me those downs have always felt more like the rollercoaster was flying off the rails and was never going to go back. Of course, given time things might not return to how they were but they will return to a constant and steady state. Some things will help speed up the process and other things are going to make it worse or slow it down. It’s all about finding new things that make you want to hop back in line and take another go around the track. Going to college has really changed how everything in my world works in a way for the better. The terror of showing up on the first day and knowing that your life is in your hands for the first time ever is terrifying, but at the same time it’s also the most exhilarating feeling. Everyday has been a new adventure and each time I think about what’s going to happen

In the movie Forrest Gump, Tom Hanks uses figurative language like “Life is like a box of chocolates” to convey how unpredictable life can be. Some imagery that comes to mind when reading this quote is a box chocolates and the different stages of life. The box of chocolates with all kinds of different chocolates, not knowing what each one will taste like. No one ever really asks for a box of chocolates, like no one ever asks for life it just happens. The box of chocolates is unreturnable like how life is set up, you can not just return life. Sometimes you get a piece of chocolate that you enjoy which would relate to something good happening in your life. The different stages of life such as being a baby, to growing up, to graduating, to marriage,

Life sometimes seems scary. The fear of failure and the fear of the unknown make a person rethink its choices and goals, this happens all the time. As time passes, be days, moths, years or only simply one experience can change our whole vision of the world, about life, about what really matters and consequently about our goals. Throughout my whole life I have questioned so many aspects of my life, of existence, and consequently about my future. I never stopped wanting to achieve something big, that could change the whole world, some amazing adventure that would be the one thing that would give birth to all the amazing things that could happen next. As time passed I realized that life itself is one big adventure, and that what I will do every day will matter for me and for the people around me. I realized that life is not some perfect movie where there are good guys, bad guys and that in the end of one amazing journey everything would be solved. It may be a childish vision of the world, but it had motivated me for years to do the thing I believed would help me achieve this, and to believe in myself. Obviously as I grew up, I saw what the world really looked like, that sacrifices have to be made, that there are things which no one can control, that if I want something I have to work really hard. In today society everything counts.