“When you walk through the hospital, you waiver between feeling bad for everyone else and feeling bad for yourself. It’s a war of worlds – the healthy and the sick. – Jenna Morasca Are you ever out and about or maybe just home alone and think “this is the worst day ever?” Well this has happened to me on many occasions. In December of 2013 my mother fell ill. It was very hard on me and my family as it would be for most, being that we loved her very much. She was constantly in and out of hospitals, getting test done, and always being diagnosed with something new then being told she didn’t have it. It got the point where the only thing she could move was her feet and head ever so slightly. Eventually, she was diagnosed with Polymyositis. Polymyositis …show more content…
This definition can be so clear yet so vague. On one hand, it tells you exactly what a father is. On another, a father is supposed to be so much more than “a man in relation to his natural child or children.” A father should love and care for his children not only when they’re going through hard times, but always. Regardless of what you say, actions speak louder than words. If I were to ask my father a few months ago if he loved me he’d say yes. And to that I’d say “your actions are telling me otherwise.” A few months after my mom died there were some problems going on at my sister’s school. Come to find out, our “father”, who hadn’t tried to contact us since before our mom died had gone and changed all of her school information and was going to pick her up without informing anyone. So when we got to the school, we were in shock. Being that he is the “father” the school let her over to him. My older sister and I ended up going as well, so she wouldn’t be alone. The day we got there it was terrible. I had gotten my tooth taken out earlier that day and I was in excruciating pain and needed to get my prescription which couldn’t be done until the next day, also my little sister needed food for lunch but all he had was $12 which he was going to use for gas. Throughout the next month or two he kept proving that he couldn’t take care of us. We eventually went back with my grandmother and shortly after he’d gotten
“Father,” in a literal definition, is a man who gives care and protection to someone or
The special nature of father-child relationship is unique with each child. The basic nature and responsibility of a father is to provide material and emotional needs and to protect the child from harm and/or danger. The child should feel free to verbally express him/herself with a sense of security - all of which would enhance the child’s potential to become his/her best person. When the parent is deceased it can be a challenge to embrace life until you began to seek the true life history of your loved one and perhaps,
Myositis is inflammation of the muscle and polymyositis denotes that that inflammation affects not one, but many muscles. Polymyositis is a fairly uncommon condition that leads to increasing weakness of the skeletal muscles (those muscles involved in movement) and it can affect the body bilaterally (on both sides). People with this inflammatory disease usually find it difficult to do basic everyday maneuvers such as rising from a seated position, climbing stairs or lifting objects overhead.
A father is a son’s first hero. The relationship between a father and his son can be articulated as the most significant relationship that a man can have throughout the duration of his life.
A father is one who can be pictured as the male provider of an offspring. He is someone who is there for the child when things are going rough, such as when the child gets sick. The father is also there to teach the child right from wrong and also to teach the child how to survive in life. On the other hand, a dad is someone who just helps a woman to produce an offspring. He’s never there in the child’s life unless he has to be or is forced to be. In Raymond Carver’s “Photograph of My Father in his Twenty-Second Year” there is a son and a guy who is supposedly the kid’s father. Although the father wanted to be viewed as a good role
My mother was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis at the age of 40, when I was in preschool. With very few memories prior to her diagnosis, living with MS was quite simply a fact of life. A single parent who was singularly dedicated to her three daughters, my mother trudged unwaveringly through all the symptoms, complications, and limitations her disease inflicted on her. For the most part she suffered in silence, her disease progression so slow and gradual that it was nearly imperceptible to us. She was our family’s rock, her faith in God strengthening her resolve to give us as normal a childhood as possible considering the situation. A sudden escalation of her symptoms when I was eleven altered our lives. Over the course of two months she lost
Polymyositis is a rare disease that causes chronic inflammation among the muscles. It is a type of a myopathy which affects the muscles in the body. It seems that the disease mostly targets the muscles in the appendicular regions of the body. In an article by Waldron, he described the parts of the body that are affected by polymyositis, “The most noticeable characteristic is muscle weakness, especially in the muscle closest to your trunk” (39). Due to the loss in muscle mass in these areas, simple daily tasks such as walking up the stairs, standing up from a chair, eating, or lifting light objects become extremely difficult. Other symptoms from this disease include fatigue, difficulty in swallowing, arthritis, shortness of breath, and speaking
I constantly watch in awe as my mother never deprived herself of the areas of her life that brought happiness, even after her diagnosis. She still enjoys running and traveling, and does not let Multiple Sclerosis bring her down. Despite the pain and mental stress that occurred with both of these activities, she still heavily participates in them. She has inspired me to find what my passions are in life, and to never let go of those activities. I began to run, as I had been motivated by her efforts. Once I had built up enough strength, I signed myself up for a full marathon. My mother was supportive during my entire training, all the way to the 26.2 mile finish. I was able to prove to her that I had the strength to proceed during difficulty, with no intentions of giving up on my goals. I will show my gratitude by providing the same enthusiastic support to help her in the
One sunny day in the summer of 2012, I was up at my Aunt Jenny’s house when I got the unexpected call from my grandmother. I knew that my mom had health issues but I thought they were all solved when she got the first surgery when she was 14, but I never thought that I was going to nearly lose my mom again from the same situation. It was hard to know that I could have lost her so abruptly. It was extremely hard to get used to my mom being in the hospital and having to learn what I was going to do next in life. I tried to keep myself occupied so I would not have to think about her in the condition she was in but that only made me more depressed than I was to begin with. I did not have any one to talk to about it and I just kept all my feelings inside because I did not want anyone to know how horrible I truly felt. I started to understand for what reason and why it happened when I met to my best friend of four years. Sophie is a big
My father has always been my crutch. He’s always been there to support me when I felt broken, constantly apologizing for something he can’t control. When I felt unwanted and abandoned and constantly asking myself what I did wrong for her to not want to stay and asking what was wrong with myself every time the door slammed shut. My father was there picking up the pieces, and patting my back trying to pacify me. How he sat me on the counter and poured peroxide on my knees in order to clean out the leftover rocks and blood after I tried to race down the steps after her and fell while trying to drag her back causing the rocks to bite into my skin. She left without looking back.
I have struggled through many depressions in my life not knowing the current condition of my mother and not wanting to know. During my last summer at home my mom’s condition worsened she
Our relationship with our loved ones can be sometimes complicated, and one of the reasons is because of the way our parents are raising us; and also the way their parents raised them too. In this decade fathers are less aware of their children’s need of love. The idea of fatherhood changed dramatically after the Industrial Revolution. The economy abruptly dictated that somebody had to go out to work in order to bring food to the table. Men were usually chosen, because of the idea that woman are the ones who take care of the household. In addition, for almost 200 years, each generation of fathers has had less authority than the last, when talking about their children. I am not making generalization about all men, but there is an enormous amount
Furthermore, father figures play a big roll in a child’s everyday life, especially a sons’. Wade F. Horn, author of “Promoting Marriage as a Means of Fatherhood’, wrote about different types of support from a father. Horn goes on to say children whose fathers listened, guided, and nurtured them, were better off in school. (480). A father is just as important as a mother; “when fatherhood falters, children suffer” (479). Typically fathers are the ones to disappear, in this case, my father has been the one to support me. When I needed a stable home, food, clothes, love, anything, I counted on my
Earlier this year, in January of 2015, my mom was diagnosed with cirrhosis, a chronic disease of the liver. See, my mom had a drinking problem so without a liver transplant, she wouldn’t make it. She had been in and out of hospitals for a couple weeks until she eventually got transferred to Jackson Hospital in Downtown. Everyday, I’d go with my dad and sisters to visit her and so did many other family members. I had never realized
My father showed up to my graduation late missing me walk across the stage receiving my diploma, but I still love him. When I was younger we had a normal father daughter relationship until Valentine’s day of 2009 when he left. My mom left the house and business to get away from their toxic marriage. They soon got a divorce and ever since then he hasn’t been an active reliable father. Years passed, and I was still holding on to hope that he’d someday will re-enter his three-daughter’s life but hope soon vanished when he did not attend anything he should’ve as a father, call to check up on us or send not only monetary support, but support in general. My mother and father had a great relationship I would say before the divorce but of course