Extra Credit for Semester

So for this assignment i visited two elderly people named Larry Warshaw age who resides near SoHo, and Ruby Lee who resides in Chelsea. While visiting these two elderly people I noticed that Larry was depressed most of the time because he depended on a walker and lived on the second floor in a studio apartment with no elevator. Ruby Lee was more of the happier type even though she depended on a wheelchair to move because of her bad back, and legs. While visiting Larry I felt bad for him because he lived by himself and he needed somebody to help him get food since he couldn't do it himself. Every so often I visited him to buy him food from the deli so he can get his lunch and dinner for the day. While visiting Ruby I felt bad for her because she depended on a wheelchair and it was hard for her to get outside if she needed food or her medication from the local pharmacy. She mentioned to me at her house how her doctor was on 92nd st and how hard it was for her to travel up there, since she used a wheelchair.

While visiting both people they were happy to have someone come and visit them and to also help them out at the same time. When I visited Larry he had a slight smile on his face saying these exact words "Thank you I really appreciate your help, your like an angel. Thank you for your help." And I felt happy also because he was happy, I felt like I did a good thing for him. While visiting Ruby she was happy, me and her were laughing and telling stories, I took her to Whole Foods to get her groceries and then went to Rite Aid for her medication. Overall they bought seemed somewhat happy for someone to be there for them, considering they both lived by themselves.But Larry seemed the most depressed.

The social practices that undermine their chance to live well. Will most like be health care even though health care might is not the greatest thing according to Michael Moore's Sicko. Still the two elderly people that i both visited both said that their medical health care is helping them out to live well. They said even though they may need to pay a small coy payment in order to be healthy, they told me that they rather pay then to die. Even though she seemed kind of awkward when i asked about health care they still told me how it helps them out with their medical history. When i asked if they were ever denied by their health insurance they said only once or twice throughout their life.

This assignment connects back to the dominant social practices of illness and dying because we addressed as a class about how people are when it comes close to death, or how people die or become worse without health insurance, or even how people react when they care faced with a terminal disease like cancer for instance. Hearing the word cancer coming out from a doctor's mouth when they are talking about you will definitely give you nightmares and make you life from there on a living hell.