He stood and had only one leg…When he put his weight on it, a shower of silver needles gushed up the calf and went off at the knee.…
In The Running Game by Wendelin Van Draanen, Jessica, the main character, is hospitalized after an accident. A vehicle crashed into her bus after a track meet and she is now missing one of her legs below the knee. She ran a 400 meter race in 55 seconds flat during her last meet, but now it takes her five minutes to move 20 feet. She heals quickly and her doctor is pleased with her progress, but her mental state isn't doing so well. She slips into depression. She is frustrated because she knows that she is supposed to appreciate all that her family and friends are doing to help her adapt to her situation, but she feels as if she is a stranger in her own house. Learning to live without her leg isn't the only battle that Jessica faces. She also…
2. Establish for yourself a picture of a wind farm operator before and after the decision to exploit the use of predictive analytics through the adoption of Fluitec Wind as a service provider. [fill in table below]…
One day there were two footballs Tim and Jim that were watching a football game to study up on what they are supposed to do in their game. As they watch they realize they could get hurt in their game,so they go on a mission to the commissioner's office to save their lives. So they set off on what seems to be an impossible mission.As they are on the side of the highway they realize that they need a way to get there quick. And that way is an air pump for footballs. Jim airs up Tim and Tim airs up Jim as they count to three they pop off and start flying through the air. In a short twenty minutes they are at the commissioner’s office. They bring to the attention of the commissioner that they could get hurt but the commissioner doesn’t let them…
HISTORY OF PRESENT ILLNESS: The patient is an elderly male, who fell four days prior to admission. He noted immediate pain and swelling in the area just above his left elbow. He presented to the emergency room for treatment.…
In the years preceding the First World War, Australia was rife with racism, sexism, suspicion, and class prejudice. However, Broome in Australia’s north-west, was a place of notable exception. Its inhabitants of Japanese, Aboriginal and European lived in a semi-balance of equality. This relationship was needed because; only as a symbiotic society could the community develop and grow in such an isolated and remorseless environment.…
1. Mr. Dunner is admitted to his room accompanied by his wife. Before the nurse can begin the admission assessment, Mr. Dunner states that he needs to “throw up.” The nurse helps him sit up and provides an emesis basin.…
If the child involved has had a bump to the head, a letter is sent home that day and the child would have a red dot sticker on their collar to alert the parent/carer.…
‘Davo Dickson’ was thrown from a bull during his training one afternoon. He was tossed into the steel cattle yards, screaming in agony he clutched his right forearm which clearly showed signs of bone deformity. Davo is in immense pain and has obvious signs of bone deformity; these are all clear symptoms that he has either broken his right forearm, or at the least fractured it. The injury would be identified as a direct hard tissue injury due to the impact his forearm has just gone through and the signs of bone deformity, there would also be signs of soft tissue injury, such as bruising.…
Characterization begins to formulate as the essay progresses through description and the introduction of dialog. As the reader learns of the narrator’s actual profession as a surgeon, the early confusion and mystery conglomerate into a stunning perspective of the occupation. Selzer incorporates various metaphors while describing his personal outlook upon the mental and physical states during an operation. As he writes, “and if a surgeon is like a poet, then the scars you have made on countless bodies before are like verses into the fashioning of which you have poured your soul,” the author’s deep connection and passionate relationship with this noble trade becomes apparent. The previous notion of some barbaric profession couldn’t be further from the…
In Kindred by Octavia Butler, Dana is subject to many different wounds all over her body; the more involved Dana becomes in the story the more damaging the wounds are to her everyday function. These wounds, their severity, and their position represent certain emotional and mental scars in Dana made by her travels into the 1800’s.The most severe of these wounds and the bait of the novel, since it is the opening chapter and I am awaiting for this scene throughout the book, is the losing of her left arm. Losing such a vital part of one’s body can be devastating and for some this can be an unsurpassable obstacle, but for Dana is a reminder of her travels, her new found knowledge, and her family’s roots.…
Take a minute to imagine “Men looking like they had been/attacked repeatedly by a succession /of wild animals,” “never/ ending blasted field of corpses,” and “throats half gone, /eyes bleeding, raw meat heaped/ in piles.” These are the vividly, grotesque images Edward Mayes describes to readers in his poem, “University of Iowa Hospital, 1976.” Before even reading the poem, the title gave me a preconceived idea of what the poem might be about. “University of Iowa Hospital, 1976” describes what an extreme version of what I expected the poem to be about. The images I described above are just some of the horrifying scenes described by Mayes. This poem spoke to me about the pain and suffering patients endure while staying in a hospital (whether it be a mental hospital or a medical hospital) and the horrific images the staff see daily. Mayes uses several types of imagery and literary tropes in his poem to give readers an intense visual sensation as they read his poem. The visuals Mayes placed in my own mind while I read this poem were intensely real and stuck with me long after I studied the poem.…
The theme corresponds to the message the short story validates than it is vividly interpreted to be mainly about what is seen through the characters point of view. Although, the two characters may be portrayed as senseless druggies, their resourceful thinking and sight conveys the reader a different aspect of their trait. Therefore, Johnson lets the reader know the unique visual concept Georgie gave when he saw the pool of blood on the hospital floor. Unlike most minds of the people Georgie is disturbed by how much blood is streaming in a human’s body and mentioned that eventually the gruesome blood will be released when death occurs. On the other hand, the way F-head visualizes the image is based off of the acceptance and normality of death. Moreover, the different visual analysis between Georgie and F-head explains the sentiments that fund their characteristics and their opposite point of…
Once again, I found myself wandering through the uncomfortable, brightly lit halls of the hospital. I was to find the room where my father was, an all too familiar task. "Room 443", I was told by my mother who had requested me to take my dad back to his apartment. Upon entering the elevator I let out a sigh of apprehension and turned to wearily push the button labeled "4". Whiffs of disinfectant products meandered themselves inside my nose while I looked around to see egg-white walls and nurses shuffling about in their bright, floral print scrubs. One of them approached me with a kind smile. "May I help you?" I briefly responded saying I needed to find my father, Charles Jolitz. "Go down the hall. He's in the last room on the left." Slowly making my way to the door, I speculated about what had happened to my dad this time. I entered the room thinking to myself, "Boy, he looks worse every time.", his salt and pepper hair ruffled, beard unshaven and a look of loss on his face. Though as soon as his eyes met mine, that face lit up and the corners of his mouth upturned into a smile. "My chickadee!", he exclaimed. I asked him how he was feeling and if it was time to go as the nurse carted in a wheelchair. All three of us made our way down to the lobby exchanging small talk. I dashed to my car, happy to be out of the dreariness that is a hospital. I hoped he would tell me why he was there yet again. Once in the car, he told me in a few words that he had had another episode due to taking his pain medication with a fifth of vodka and had lost control. He ended up dialing 911. My dad hurriedly changed the subject asking if I was hungry and if I would like to go have a burger. I let out another sigh. "I'm sorry, Dad. I'm not hungry, I've already eaten but I can take you to get one. We can go for lunch later this week." "Alright, sweetie.", said he. We arrived at his apartment complex and I walked him to his…
The Knife Thrower is a short story written by Steven Millhauser and appeared in Harper’s Magazine for the first time, in 1997. The story is about a well-known knife thrower, named Hensch, who is visiting a small town for a single Saturday night. There are a lot of rumours about Hensch and the people in town are excited to see if they are true. Young women want to bear the knife masters wounds proudly, and rumour is that he once wounded an assistant badly.…