The Fragility and Tenacity of Hope

Save My Kid ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 156-172
Author(s):  
Amanda M. Gengler
Keyword(s):  
Brain Tumor ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Management Strategies ◽  
Illness Management ◽  
Stepping Stone ◽  
Life Threatening Illness ◽  
The World ◽  
Life Threatening ◽  
Emotional Dynamics

Chapter 7 introduces the author’s sudden personal immersion into the world of negotiating life-threatening illness. When Amanda Gengler’s father was diagnosed with a terminal brain tumor, the significant advantages of care-captaining and the potential consequences of care-entrusting were brought into even sharper relief. By living an experience somewhat parallel to that of the families she was studying, she found the emotional dynamics at the root of these illness management strategies crystalizing in her own daily life. She also learned intimately that hope can ultimately serve as both a stepping stone and a stumbling block as illness unfolds.

scholarly journals Treatment of Pulmonary Embolism: a Decade of Experience

2019 ◽  
pp. 46-49
Author(s):  
A. Nikonenko ◽  
A. Nikonenko ◽  
S. Matvieiev ◽  
V. Osaulenko ◽  
S. Nakonechniy
Keyword(s):  
Pulmonary Embolism ◽  
Outpatient Treatment ◽  
Acute Pulmonary Embolism ◽  
High Efficiency ◽  
Oral Anticoagulants ◽  
Fibrinolytic Therapy ◽  
Major Life ◽  
Life Threatening Illness ◽  
The World ◽  
Life Threatening

Pulmonary embolism (PE) is a major life-threatening illness which remains one of the main causes of sudden death throughout the world. The analysis of diagnosis and treatment of 472 patients with acute pulmonary embolism for a period of 10 years was performed. High efficiency of diagnosis using multispiral computer angiopulmonography (MSCT APG) has been established, thus this method completely supersedes the traditional selective angiopulmonography. Seventeen (3.6 %) patients died due to PE recurrence, another 8 (1.7 %) patients died due to the bleeding after using fibrinolytics and anticoagulants, and 14 (2.9 %) died due to progression of organs failure. This emphasizes the need to improve measures aimed to prevent PE recurrence and identify sources of possible bleeding and refrain from aggressive fibrinolytic therapy. The use of differentiated approach to the treatment with thrombolytic therapy and anticoagulants enabled to achieve recovery in 433 (91.7 %) patients who were discharged for outpatient treatment. New oral anticoagulants were prescribed to 94 (21.7 %) patients after discharge.

Therapeutic Strategies for Coping with a Life-Threatening Illness: A Personal Testament

2003 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 162-182 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pittu Laungani
Keyword(s):  
Chronic Condition ◽  
High Probability ◽  
Therapeutic Strategies ◽  
Limited Capacity ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Personal Account ◽  
The Past ◽  
Life Threatening Illness ◽  
The World ◽  
Life Threatening

This article is a personal account of the author's experiences with a chronic, life-threatening illness, of which he has been a victim for the past fourteen years. In the article, the author argues that a serious life-threatening illness need not be seen as the end of the world for the sufferer. Such an attitude is self-defeating. It has serious negative consequences for the sufferer, with a high probability of the sufferer experiencing depression, loss of any goal and purpose in life, followed by a ten-dency to give up fighting. These are negative, pessimistic, and self-defeating attitudes. The author outlines definite, practical ways by which one can overcome such feelings and attitudes and transform one's life, making it positive, enjoyable, and happy. The author suggests how, despite one's chronic condition, one can work within one's limited capacity, create a sense of meaning and purpose in one's life, and extract as much fun and pleasure out of it as possible.

Blending and Switching Care Strategies

Save My Kid ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 105-126
Author(s):  
Amanda M. Gengler
Keyword(s):  
Critically Ill ◽  
Management Strategies ◽  
Illness Experience ◽  
Critically Ill Children ◽  
Illness Management ◽  
Health Capital ◽  
Emotional Dynamics

Chapter 5 analyzes the emotional dynamics of families with critically ill children, detailing the cases and moments in which families blended or switched illness management strategies. For families with enough cultural health capital to care-captain at strategic moments, stepping back and care-entrusting at other times could facilitate a less harried illness experience. These cases, along with instances in which other families switched strategies, illuminate the powerful emotional forces driving families’ decisions about how to manage their child’s illness.

Palliative care in situations of conflict

2015 ◽  
pp. 1168-1173
Author(s):  
Nathan I. Cherny
Keyword(s):  
Palliative Care ◽  
Care Delivery ◽  
Substantial Proportion ◽  
Anxiety And Depression ◽  
World Population ◽  
The Past ◽  
Life Threatening Illness ◽  
The World ◽  
Life Threatening ◽  
Jewish Hospital

Incurable, life-threatening illness is endemic, and it often occurs in places of conflict. In these circumstances, care delivery is often compromised or complicated. Situations of conflict occur in many places in the world, and at any time a substantial proportion of the world population is involved in conflict of one sort or other. Conflicts, such as war or terror, traumatize the involved populations. In this situation, bereavement, fear, anxiety, and depression become commonplace. The observations in this chapter are derived from experiences working with Palestinian and Israeli patients in a Jewish hospital in Jerusalem over the past 15 years.

scholarly journals Introduction

Ramus ◽  
1997 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew D. Walker
Keyword(s):  
Black Sea ◽  
Military Service ◽  
The Black Sea ◽  
Life Threatening Illness ◽  
The World ◽  
Life Threatening ◽  
Ars Amatoria

What Ovid endured as an ‘exile’ in Tomis is a great unknown—the stuff now of novels and ‘imaginary’ lives. If we take him at his word—the testimony of the exile poetry—literary isolation was the least of his worries. Bordering on the Black Sea, Ovid's frontier town was a place of life-threatening illness (Tr. 3.3.13, 3.8.23f.) and unbearable, limb-numbing cold (Ex Pont. 1.7.11f., 4.12.33f.), a place where inhabitants pass an existence at war, warding off frequent invasions by savage barbarians—so frequent, in fact, that the aged poet is himself conscripted into military service (Ex Pont. 18.7). In many respects, Tomis is constructed in the exile poetry as the antithetical opposite of the world of Rome; for the urbane ‘urban’ persona of the Ars Amatoria, life in Tomis rates as a fate worse than death, and often the poet describes his existence there as death-like (e.g. Tr. 5.9.19, Ex Pont. 1.8.27), his surroundings like the underworld (cf. Tr. 5.7.43f.), and his daily rituals as practice for dying. And although he outlived Augustus—the princeps who exiled the poet to the Black Sea in 7 CE—Ovid would indeed die in Tomis, far from family and home, out ‘on the furthermost limits of the unknown world’ (in extremis ignoti partibus orbis, Tr. 3.3.3).

A nurse academic's lived experience with COVID-19: a reflective narrative

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Herbert Mwebe
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
Life Threatening Illness ◽  
The World ◽  
Physical Threat ◽  
Life Threatening ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Reflective Narrative

COVID-19 is incomparable in terms of its impact and reach across the globe. Every corner of the world has been affected by this virus in one way or another. The impact of COVID-19 poses an existential and physical threat to us all. This reflective narrative discusses my own experience having caught the virus and examines the impact that living with the disease has had and continues to have on my life. Battling distressing symptoms, and having had to face this life-threatening illness, evoked fear and panic within me, despite my usual level-headed, calm and easy-going personality. I ruminated whether I would be among the statistics of those who eventually recover from the disease or those who sadly do not. Therein was my mental anguish and self-torment; and I very much doubt if I am alone in this.

Review of Adapting to Life-Threatening Illness.

1987 ◽  
Vol 32 (10) ◽  
pp. 906-906
Author(s):  
No authorship indicated
Keyword(s):  
Life Threatening Illness ◽  
Life Threatening

Life-threatening Illness as Precursor to Posttraumatic Growth

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lawrence G. Calhoun ◽  
◽  
Jay Azarow ◽  
Tzipi Weiss ◽  
Joel Millam
Keyword(s):  
Posttraumatic Growth ◽  
Life Threatening Illness ◽  
Life Threatening

Mülteci olmak: Mersin’de yaşayan Filistinli mültecilerin göç hikâyeleri

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 200-224
Author(s):  
Bilge Deniz Çatak
Keyword(s):  
Oral History ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Palestinian Refugees ◽  
Emotional Bonds ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Oral History Interviews ◽  
Refugee Experience

Filistin tarihinde yaşanan 1948 ve 1967 savaşları, binlerce Filistinlinin başka ülkelere göç etmesine neden olmuştur. Günümüzde, dünya genelinde yaşayan Filistinli mülteci sayısının beş milyonu aştığı tahmin edilmektedir. Ülkelerine geri dönemeyen Filistinlilerin mültecilik deneyimleri uzun bir geçmişe sahiptir ve köklerinden koparılma duygusu ile iç içe geçmiştir. Mersin’de bulunan Filistinlilerin zorunlu olarak çıktıkları göç yollarında yaşadıklarının ve mülteci olarak günlük hayatta karşılaştıkları zorlukların Filistinli kimlikleri üzerindeki etkisi sözlü tarih yöntemi ile incelenmiştir. Farklı kuşaklardan sekiz Filistinli mülteci ile yapılan görüşmelerde, dünyanın farklı bölgelerinde mülteci olarak yaşama deneyiminin, Filistinlilerin ulusal bağlılıklarına zarar vermediği görülmüştür. Filistin, mültecilerin yaşamlarında gelenekler, değerler ve duygusal bağlar ile devam etmektedir. Mültecilerin Filistin’den ayrılırken yanlarına aldıkları anahtar, tapu ve toprak gibi nesnelerin saklanıyor olması, Filistin’e olan bağlılığın devam ettiğinin işaretlerinden biridir.ABSTRACT IN ENGLISHPalestinian refugees’ lives in MersinIn the history of Palestine, 1948 and 1967 wars have caused fleeing of thousands of Palestinians to other countries. At the present time, its estimated that the number of Palestinian refugees worldwide exceeds five million. The refugee experience of Palestinians who can not return their homeland has a long history and intertwine with feeling of deracination. Oral history interviews were conducted on the effects of the displacement and struggles of daily life as a refugee on the identity of Palestinians who have been living in Mersin (city of Turkey). After interviews were conducted with eight refugees from different generations concluded that being a refugee in the various parts of the world have not destroyed the national entity of the Palestinians. Palestine has preserved in refugees’ life with its traditions, its values, and its emotional bonds. Keeping keys, deeds and soil which they took with them when they departed from Palestine, proving their belonging to Palestine.

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