When someone is diagnosed with an illness their main priority consists of them taking medicine and other treatments to keep the illness down. I noticed that she has to take more than three different types of pills each day, several pains for the pain, and others for the illness itself. She has Carpal tunnel syndrome and watching her in pain is very unbearable. I couldn’t imagine being in such a situation and couldn’t dream of knowing what I would do if it happened to me. She goes on about her day doing things just as she did before she found about this illness but sometimes it’s overwhelming to suddenly feel numbness in parts of your hand. It may also be embarrassing because as you get older you may want your independence and being dependent on people does not make you feel very self-sufficient.
She doesn’t let this syndrome keep her from living her life. Instead of complaining about things and wondering why this has happened to her, she doesn’t let this illness become her. There were a number of times that I have been with her and suddenly her hand feels numb. I can say when this happens sometimes I feel bad for her and sad that I can’t be there all the time to help her when she experiences those feelings, or numbness. Illness & dying in our culture is a topic that is widely ignored until the time comes when death is near. You never know when you are going to die but when you are diagnosed with an illness you must take many different pills that may get annoying at times.
I do think social conditions have to do with the illnesses people contract. Let’s say there’s someone who works in a meat packing industry and someone who works in mattress store. Which person is more prone to being injured, the person that works in the meat packing industry, right? This is because the person in the meat packing industry may not have as many opportunities for health insurance at their job and they can’t afford to pay hospital bills. It is very difficult to survive when people are not very wealthy. If you were the breadwinner of your family you would rather be in pain at work, than to return home empty handed wondering how your family is going to eat. I believe that there are sacrifices people must make for themselves but everyone should be provided with an equal opportunity for healthcare.
When I Read this the first thing that came up was how when we are saved we deal with an illness, Sin. Sin can bring us down and harm us. But our doctor is God and our medicine is reading the word, praying, and fasting. For us to have faith and hope we have to look at the bigger picture which is that our time on earth is only for a while.
ReplyDeleteThe lady you speak of seems like she won't allow for her illness to bring her down and she will fight as long as she can. People like her I admire because they are strong no matter what they are going through. Great Job.
For Raven,
ReplyDeleteThe best part of what you wrote that i liked is when you compared a person who worked in meat market compared to a person who works in a mattress store and the disadvantages the person had. I thought that was very interesting. Another thing was how you had an opening sentence to introduce what we were about to read. "When someone is diagnosed with an illness their main priority consists of them taking medicine and other treatments to keep the illness down."I thought that it was a good attention grabber especially about sickness and dying. :)
what I liked was that how you compared a person who worked in a meat marketand a person who worked in a matters store
ReplyDeleteRaven,
ReplyDeleteThe line that resonated with me on the ill was, " It may also be embarrassing because as you get older you may want your independence and being dependent on people does not make you feel very self-sufficient." When I see people who are ill like my sister in law's father who always wants to do things by himself but unfortunately recently had a stroke so during that time he had to lean on others and for him and for many other people is embarassing and even undignififing. A line that made me feel ashamed of myself and I'm sure it does for many is that, " Instead of complaining about things and wondering why this has happened to her, she doesn’t let this illness become her." because we (healthy people) complain for littlest issues and like raven's person who is ill doesn't complain when she has serious health problems.