Death was something new to me. I had never had to deal with someone close to me passing. I had experienced my friends losing a grandparent or a distant relative, but it had not affected me terribly much. I always considered myself to be lucky I had not suffered through the pain of losing someone brought. When this finally occurred, the first challenge was presented to me: accepting the fact I didn’t have a father anymore.…
HISTORY AND PHYSICAL EXAMINATION OR EMERGANCY DEPARTMENT TREATMENT RECORD Patient Name : Benjamin Engelhart Patient ID : 112592 Date of Birth : 10/05/1958 Age : 46 Sex : Male Date of Admission : 11/14/2014 Emergency Room Physician : Alex McClure, MD…
He was taken to a hospital to pump his stomach. He vomited the two capsules…
Little did we know that morning that God was going to call your name. In life we loved you dearly in death we do the same It broke our hearts to lose you. You did not go alone for a part of us went with you that day God called you home. You left us peacful memories, your love is still our guide, and alothugh we can not see you, you are always at our side.…
had died due to complications whilr giving birth. His father refused to give up on…
Hearing my sister say “dad” and “heart attack” in the same sentence was all that it took to make it seem like my world stopped. Although at that moment we were under the impression he was still alive, I had a knot in my stomach that felt like I knew that wasn’t true. The drive from color guard practice to the hospital was a blur. All I remember was telling the service desk my last name before being escorted to a personal waiting room followed by the doctor who informed me that my dad had died.…
I then realized the look on the doctor’s face and that in it spoke the words that were unspoken. She started explaining to us that the mother was only 22 ½ weeks along and that she was going into premature labor. We had a decision to make -we could either let her naturally go into labor with the baby being breech (this will cause a head catch) which lessens the chance of survival or do an emergency C- section. For the first time in my life I had no way of fixing this. This was out of my hands and into the hands of God. I felt alone, desperate and frightened. I just kept thinking this wasn’t supposed to happen to me. I’m a good person! I go to church; I help people in need, and I greet people with a smile to brighten their day. So the question kept popping in mind why did this happen to me?…
3. What kind of music does Ishmael like, and why? What is it about music that matters to Ishmael, or that moves him so? Why is it important to him, especially during his rehabilitation at Benin Home?…
“A Long Way Gone”, a memoir about a Sierra Leonean young boy who is a “child of war” has many themes in the novel but what is the most important? Relationship, I believe that this is the most important theme because without relationship, Ishmeal Beah, the author of “A long Way Gone” and a human rights activist would not have survived nor would he have recuperated from the war in Sierra Leone.…
In the novel, A Long Way Gone, by Ishmael Beah, the author discusses the topic of survival. The book tells a story of a boy whose life is affected by war and forced to survive on his own. Beah is trying to send us a message that people often do crazy things in order to survive. The excerpts I provide prove this statement to be true.…
Violence has a major impact on teenagers and children in today’s society. In the novel A Long Way Gone; memoir by a boy soldier Ishmael Beah, displays how teenagers are exposed… Through the medias they are showed that the movie Rambo, which influences them to be violent and fight. Another way to seek violence is in real life when the boy soldiers are sent to fight the rebels. The violence that the young boys are exposed to caused them to think and act violently towards others,…
War is a devastating event which tears nations apart, and causes death and pain in the hearts of the inhabitants. Whether it is the countries strong males being sent off into the battle zones, or the young children, war scars people. Soldiers are dehumanized, and lose all morals and sense of right and wrong. In the book Long Way Gone, Ishmael and his friends are dehumanized through the war because of the traumatic events they endure, and their time spent in solitude away from civilization; luckily, they were able to regain humanity through the love and hope provided from others.…
Since the situation was new to me I didn't really know what to do. From the back of my mind I recalled hearing that you should stay with someone who was seizing and keep them from "swallowing their tongue". I helped him to lie down on his side and got one of the other kids to help by getting paper towels to wipe up the spittle. Mostly I just stayed with him until his mom met us on the side of the road.…
was when he was 5 days old. He pulled our son through his surgery and saw him and us…
It is often said that losing a child is the worst experience a parent has to go through. Children are not supposed to die before their parents, but sometimes they do. On a June morning, my…