Ruben's answers:
Q:What do you feel about pregnancy?
A: I think that pregnancy is a big responsibility for both the mother and father, It is a big moment that can change many lives, in different ways.
Q:Do you think birth or death is a greater moment?
A: I think that birth is a greater moment, because some one is born and there is a new life. People ten to be sad when someone dies, and generally happy when people are born.
Q:Do you believe there is a real reason for getting pregnant besides starting a family? If yes why?
A:Yes there is because some people want to have children to pass down their legacy, and power. For example a president wants to have a child in hopes that someday their kid might be president as well.
Victor Santos (Senior from last year):
Q:What do you feel about pregnancy?
A:pregnancy requires a vast amount of responsibility and you cant allow yourself to do anything bad, like drugs or alcohol if you arent responsilbe enough, or if you dont want a kid, then just abort, or suffer the consequences.
Q:Do you think birth or death is a greater moment?
A:although both provide great lessons for others in one way or another, death is best because it also liberates the subject from the hardships and sufferings of life, whereas birth introduces you to them
however, if the person likes his life, birth might be best since it gave him the chance to see it all
so, it depends.
Q:Do you believe there is a real reason for getting pregnant besides starting a family? If yes why?
A:yes the true reason behind reproduction is evolution its in our, and every living things genetic code, to pass on genes in order to improve our species and allow it to stand the test of time the potential happiness of making a family is just a bonus, the main purpose is evolution.
Josh(Friend from Bath Maine)
Q:What do you feel about pregnancy?
A: well its a pretty broad question but i think that having kids is a great thing as long as its with some one you love and your not to young ya know.
Q:Do you think birth or death is a greater moment?
A: I think that both moments are miracles, but if i had to choose id say that death is the greater moment because its so unknown, we truly have no idea what happens when you die and i just think that's sweet.
Q:Do you believe there is a real reason for getting pregnant besides starting a family? If yes why?
A: ya i think having children is also a way of passing on knowledge and growing as a species
During these interviews i noticed a lot of people had of course different meanings about each question. A lot of different perspectives occurred because i chose to ask guys instead of ladies to see if they would most likely have a most likely different idea of this unit that were doing in class. Our generation i think knows less about birth since we aren't taught as much about birth and the big deal about it as much until we experience ourselves with being a parent. Or if we have a younger sibling and we ask our own parents how it went through. Some guys during birth leave their girlfriend all by themselves and the kid grows up without a father. So that's another reason why i chose to ask guys about their ideas to see if it was more cold hearted or more nicer towards the whole pregnancy and birth questions that i asked.
Thursday, February 17, 2011
Monday, February 14, 2011
HW 34 - Some Initial Thoughts On Birth
When I hear the word birth what comes to mind is a person dying and a new person being born, basically a new life being born and starting off fresh with a new clean slate.What comes to mind is straight off the bat pain, as we see on tv mothers giving birth they are hooked up to all these hospital equipment and stuff which isn't necessary to give birth. A lot of mothers give a home birth or water birth which don't need any medical equipments attached to them.
A lot of women while giving birth feel a lot of emotions throughout the whole process, most of them feel happy to be giving birth to their new born and maybe some mothers would be sad or not happy at all to give birth to their newborn, depends all on the mother. That's basically the main thought that goes to through my head when i hear birth. I think about the parents happiness. I know that once i have a kid myself I'm going to be happier to have a child of my own but i speak for myself of course and not for everybody else.
Questions:1) How many teens in the world are having kids?
2) What's the major risk of pregnancy? (Besides the obvious risk like the baby dying and etc.)
3) Are parents really in a state of happiness when they have a kid?
A lot of women while giving birth feel a lot of emotions throughout the whole process, most of them feel happy to be giving birth to their new born and maybe some mothers would be sad or not happy at all to give birth to their newborn, depends all on the mother. That's basically the main thought that goes to through my head when i hear birth. I think about the parents happiness. I know that once i have a kid myself I'm going to be happier to have a child of my own but i speak for myself of course and not for everybody else.
Questions:1) How many teens in the world are having kids?
2) What's the major risk of pregnancy? (Besides the obvious risk like the baby dying and etc.)
3) Are parents really in a state of happiness when they have a kid?
Sunday, January 30, 2011
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.
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.
Sunday, January 16, 2011
HW 30 - Illness & Dying - Culminating Experiential Project
The aspect that i decided to explore more about was "terminal illness." I picked this topic in particular because it seems like a really interesting topic to do a research on. And because i had a cousin who dealt with a terminal illness(cancer), which then eventually lead up to his death on June 18,2010. One resource that we did look at during this unit that dealt with a case of terminal illness was the book Tuesday's with Morrie by Mitch Albom. The book talked about this teacher named Morrie that dealt with a terminal illness called Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis(or ALS for short), and his student Mitch used to always visit him. And every time he visited his teacher, Morrie used to always get worse and worse. It then got to a point where Morrie's health got to bad and he past away.
When looking back to how my cousin was before he died i decided to actually look up cancer and to see what causes it and a lot of other things along with it. When my cousin died it struck me the hardest because he was young and left two younger sons behind and his young daughter also. I decided to use this site for my research for cancer and to find out more about it: http://health.nytimes.com/health/guides/disease/cancer/overview.html. That website explained a lot about cancer that i never really knew that much about. And also when i read the book Tuesdays with Morrie it caught my eye to do research about what Morrie had which was ALS. When i read the symptoms and all it clearly matched the book and tied back to what Morrie was feeling through his terminal illness. The site i used to find out more information about ALS was: https://health.google.com/health/ref/Amyotrophic+lateral+sclerosis. While reading that i was shocked to see what people must go through while they had this illness. And it was horrible to go through. Reading this book gave me a unpleasant feeling because i felt bad for what Morrie was going through.
Before my cousin past away i used to always sit down and start and normal conversation and then usually ask him about his cancer and how he was feeling. And he stated " I found out to late about me having cancer, and im scared of leaving all my family behind, because they are going to suffer the most." And i told him that he wasn't going to die and that he has to battle cancer and never give up. When he heard me say that to him, he gave me the biggest smile and said "okay." In the end i was particular wrong because he then died 3 weeks after. The last time i saw him was with my fiance at my cousin's surprise party. I still wish to this day i can say goodbye one last time.
I basically learned that terminal illness is hard to overall deal with and that when people become internally sick and they know they're about to go, that's when to get all paranoid and sometimes hope they would of been doing things better before they got to sick. I also learned that people take life for granted until life bites back and makes people learn the hard way.
In our culture it shows that people that deal with a terminal illness always think of the worse. And they always think about a lot of things that they should do to take their mind off of what's going on and tend to pay attention to things that would distract them from what's going on. And sometimes being happy and dealing with a terminal illness doesn't help. And this matters the most because a lot of people in my family deals with terminal illnesses. Like my other cousin used to smoke cigarettes until he got throat cancer. He now speaks from a box in his throat. And after that he stopped smoking because he knew that he would die if he continued. And that's why i mentioned that people take life for granted until its to late to act.
When looking back to how my cousin was before he died i decided to actually look up cancer and to see what causes it and a lot of other things along with it. When my cousin died it struck me the hardest because he was young and left two younger sons behind and his young daughter also. I decided to use this site for my research for cancer and to find out more about it: http://health.nytimes.com/health/guides/disease/cancer/overview.html. That website explained a lot about cancer that i never really knew that much about. And also when i read the book Tuesdays with Morrie it caught my eye to do research about what Morrie had which was ALS. When i read the symptoms and all it clearly matched the book and tied back to what Morrie was feeling through his terminal illness. The site i used to find out more information about ALS was: https://health.google.com/health/ref/Amyotrophic+lateral+sclerosis. While reading that i was shocked to see what people must go through while they had this illness. And it was horrible to go through. Reading this book gave me a unpleasant feeling because i felt bad for what Morrie was going through.
Before my cousin past away i used to always sit down and start and normal conversation and then usually ask him about his cancer and how he was feeling. And he stated " I found out to late about me having cancer, and im scared of leaving all my family behind, because they are going to suffer the most." And i told him that he wasn't going to die and that he has to battle cancer and never give up. When he heard me say that to him, he gave me the biggest smile and said "okay." In the end i was particular wrong because he then died 3 weeks after. The last time i saw him was with my fiance at my cousin's surprise party. I still wish to this day i can say goodbye one last time.
I basically learned that terminal illness is hard to overall deal with and that when people become internally sick and they know they're about to go, that's when to get all paranoid and sometimes hope they would of been doing things better before they got to sick. I also learned that people take life for granted until life bites back and makes people learn the hard way.
In our culture it shows that people that deal with a terminal illness always think of the worse. And they always think about a lot of things that they should do to take their mind off of what's going on and tend to pay attention to things that would distract them from what's going on. And sometimes being happy and dealing with a terminal illness doesn't help. And this matters the most because a lot of people in my family deals with terminal illnesses. Like my other cousin used to smoke cigarettes until he got throat cancer. He now speaks from a box in his throat. And after that he stopped smoking because he knew that he would die if he continued. And that's why i mentioned that people take life for granted until its to late to act.
Friday, January 7, 2011
HW 29 - Reading and noting basic materials
Being Sick:
Being sick is thing people around the world must face with everyday that they are alive. When a person gets sick they are usually in bed and miss a day of school, or work. They end up with a high fever and along with a ton of various other symptoms. Through my own experience like today I woke up with a stomach ache, a headache, and a high fever. I took medicine in order to cope with this and to ease the pain that i was going through. Before i took this medicine i felt like if i was going to die that's how unbearable it was then i took Tylenol flu and i felt a little bit better in like an hour or so. If i was stuck with this flu for over a month, i would go crazy.
If there was no medicine at all or no doctors to help me i don't know what i would of done. Funny thing is a lot of us depend on medicine or rely on doctors in order to help us get through our sicknesses. But imagine when our ancestors were alive and there was no doctors nor medicine and how they coped with their illness. Most of them just died a painful death. But we take for granted a lot things that we have today in order to feel less pain, or in order to get better "fast". I speak for myself while stating the above. When i asked my mother about how she coped with the common cold all she said was, "well when I'm sick i drink orange juice and eat chicken noodle soup, and rest mostly." (Mom). And I myself saw my mother when she was really sick when i was five, and she almost face planted right into her soup, bad experience.
Paying for Medical Care:
Paying for medical care is a hassle for everybody now and days because of this recession that we are going through. For my own experience I remembered when i had infection on my thumb last year, and they needed to numb my thumb and slice it open... rather not get into details. Anyways like a month of so late i charged with an almost $658 dollars just for that one thing which took less than 10 minutes... So much help from my so called Health Insurance company. Harper Collins the author the book sick stated, "During the Great Depression, the average cost of a week in the hospital began to exceed what the majority of Americans earned in a month."(pg.6) Which was bad because as we all know during the Great Depression a lot of people didn't have enough money to even afford a visit in the hospital. And since it most likely took 20 years to recover from the Great Depression imagine how hard it was for people who became sick. In the movie sicko health care insurances didn't care about the people that needed help, all they cared about was the money that they received. Towards the middle of the movie a mother was talking about her daughter dying because the hospital the mother bought her child to didn't accept her insurance. In the end her daughter passed away because of the hospital's fault. Goes to show you how powerful money is. That people kill over money. And the health insurance company doesn't care about people dying as long as they get their money.
Facing Terminal Illness:
Terminal Illness is horrible illness for the patient to overcome. Much like cancer if it gets to advance and is caught late then your basically done for. Like my cousin for instance had prostate cancer and he didn't have any symptoms at all until the postal service asked for an exam and they found out. He found out to late and died a year after. He acted happy so our family wouldn't be bothered which helped us somewhat "forget". But when he died is was the most hardest thing to overcome for me at least and other family.
In the book Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom, the teacher named Mitch was going through a terminal illness that wasn't curable so he had to go through a whole lot of symptoms while he alive to overcome. Mitch the teacher states, "But there are days where I am depressed. Let me not decieve you. I see certain things going and I feel a sense of dread. What am I going to do without my hands? What happens when I can't speak? Swallowing, I don't care so much about - so they feed me through a tube, so what?" (pg.70) A lot of people who have terminal illness will most likely feel the same way. Many Americans take life granted until they are faced with an illness that isn't curable, and that's when they start praying, and crying for people's help. Let's say people who are on death row they feel a ton of dread and are filled with fear. And when and if there day comes to die they are scared to death and start crying and then a priest comes in and etc etc. (I'm stating in any shape or form that the death penalty is good nor bad). And that's basically what people feel when they know they are faced with something incurable.
Being sick is thing people around the world must face with everyday that they are alive. When a person gets sick they are usually in bed and miss a day of school, or work. They end up with a high fever and along with a ton of various other symptoms. Through my own experience like today I woke up with a stomach ache, a headache, and a high fever. I took medicine in order to cope with this and to ease the pain that i was going through. Before i took this medicine i felt like if i was going to die that's how unbearable it was then i took Tylenol flu and i felt a little bit better in like an hour or so. If i was stuck with this flu for over a month, i would go crazy.
If there was no medicine at all or no doctors to help me i don't know what i would of done. Funny thing is a lot of us depend on medicine or rely on doctors in order to help us get through our sicknesses. But imagine when our ancestors were alive and there was no doctors nor medicine and how they coped with their illness. Most of them just died a painful death. But we take for granted a lot things that we have today in order to feel less pain, or in order to get better "fast". I speak for myself while stating the above. When i asked my mother about how she coped with the common cold all she said was, "well when I'm sick i drink orange juice and eat chicken noodle soup, and rest mostly." (Mom). And I myself saw my mother when she was really sick when i was five, and she almost face planted right into her soup, bad experience.
Paying for Medical Care:
Paying for medical care is a hassle for everybody now and days because of this recession that we are going through. For my own experience I remembered when i had infection on my thumb last year, and they needed to numb my thumb and slice it open... rather not get into details. Anyways like a month of so late i charged with an almost $658 dollars just for that one thing which took less than 10 minutes... So much help from my so called Health Insurance company. Harper Collins the author the book sick stated, "During the Great Depression, the average cost of a week in the hospital began to exceed what the majority of Americans earned in a month."(pg.6) Which was bad because as we all know during the Great Depression a lot of people didn't have enough money to even afford a visit in the hospital. And since it most likely took 20 years to recover from the Great Depression imagine how hard it was for people who became sick. In the movie sicko health care insurances didn't care about the people that needed help, all they cared about was the money that they received. Towards the middle of the movie a mother was talking about her daughter dying because the hospital the mother bought her child to didn't accept her insurance. In the end her daughter passed away because of the hospital's fault. Goes to show you how powerful money is. That people kill over money. And the health insurance company doesn't care about people dying as long as they get their money.
Facing Terminal Illness:
Terminal Illness is horrible illness for the patient to overcome. Much like cancer if it gets to advance and is caught late then your basically done for. Like my cousin for instance had prostate cancer and he didn't have any symptoms at all until the postal service asked for an exam and they found out. He found out to late and died a year after. He acted happy so our family wouldn't be bothered which helped us somewhat "forget". But when he died is was the most hardest thing to overcome for me at least and other family.
In the book Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom, the teacher named Mitch was going through a terminal illness that wasn't curable so he had to go through a whole lot of symptoms while he alive to overcome. Mitch the teacher states, "But there are days where I am depressed. Let me not decieve you. I see certain things going and I feel a sense of dread. What am I going to do without my hands? What happens when I can't speak? Swallowing, I don't care so much about - so they feed me through a tube, so what?" (pg.70) A lot of people who have terminal illness will most likely feel the same way. Many Americans take life granted until they are faced with an illness that isn't curable, and that's when they start praying, and crying for people's help. Let's say people who are on death row they feel a ton of dread and are filled with fear. And when and if there day comes to die they are scared to death and start crying and then a priest comes in and etc etc. (I'm stating in any shape or form that the death penalty is good nor bad). And that's basically what people feel when they know they are faced with something incurable.
Sunday, January 2, 2011
HW 27 - Visiting an unwell person
I have an internship dealing with a ton of senior citizens who are mostly sick or they can't walk without a walker, wheelchair, cane, or access a ride. And i need to help them everyday with different things like take them shopping, or bring them to a doctor's appointment because they are mostly incapable to take themselves places. From reading the book Tuesdays with Morrie i realized that what Morrie was going through was mostly the same exact things these people were going through; which was being dependent and mostly emotionally dependent.
I remember from one of my visits i visited some elderly who had an oxygen tank in her house and neeed to put breathing tubes up her nose in order to breathe fresh air. The air in her house wasn't safe for her to breathe since she was in her 80s and there was construction in the apartment next to her. And mostly when i visit her she needs to bring a walker with her and stops literally every two minutes in order to catch her breath, even though were walking like one short block away to a pharmacy.
We went to the pharmacy and she needed to get her flu shot and she needed help with a survey. The pharmacist asked her to circle the conditions that she had. While i was helping her circle her specific conditions i noticed she had multiple things wrong with her and not just one or two but around three. Which for a person around 80 is really bad. Before she got her flu shot i told her about the side effects and that it may hurt her and she didn't bother listening to me. And after the pharmacist gave her the flu shot, the pharmist told her that she might have a high fever along with other side effects for an 80 year old to deal with.
She started telling me stories about her life and what's wrong with her. I went to her house after the pharmacy and she started telling me why she needed an oxygen tank, and that she could hardly breathe on her own without a machine to help her out. She also sat down with her new bottle of wine and wanted me to pour her some so i did and while entering the kitchen i noticed other liquors. I asked her why she drank and she told me because she gets depressed so she drinks to feel calm and happier. I told her to stop but she wouldn't listen. As i sat there wondering why she was killing her self faster; she just grab the cup of wine and started drinking it. I told her that i needed to go since it was getting late, as i gave her a kiss on the cheek and a hug goodbye, i started to walk home and wondered to myself why does she want to die so soon.
For the list of symptoms about the H1N1 for paragraph number 2 here is a link:
http://www.suite101.com/content/swine-flu-vaccine-side-effects-a150414
I remember from one of my visits i visited some elderly who had an oxygen tank in her house and neeed to put breathing tubes up her nose in order to breathe fresh air. The air in her house wasn't safe for her to breathe since she was in her 80s and there was construction in the apartment next to her. And mostly when i visit her she needs to bring a walker with her and stops literally every two minutes in order to catch her breath, even though were walking like one short block away to a pharmacy.
We went to the pharmacy and she needed to get her flu shot and she needed help with a survey. The pharmacist asked her to circle the conditions that she had. While i was helping her circle her specific conditions i noticed she had multiple things wrong with her and not just one or two but around three. Which for a person around 80 is really bad. Before she got her flu shot i told her about the side effects and that it may hurt her and she didn't bother listening to me. And after the pharmacist gave her the flu shot, the pharmist told her that she might have a high fever along with other side effects for an 80 year old to deal with.
She started telling me stories about her life and what's wrong with her. I went to her house after the pharmacy and she started telling me why she needed an oxygen tank, and that she could hardly breathe on her own without a machine to help her out. She also sat down with her new bottle of wine and wanted me to pour her some so i did and while entering the kitchen i noticed other liquors. I asked her why she drank and she told me because she gets depressed so she drinks to feel calm and happier. I told her to stop but she wouldn't listen. As i sat there wondering why she was killing her self faster; she just grab the cup of wine and started drinking it. I told her that i needed to go since it was getting late, as i gave her a kiss on the cheek and a hug goodbye, i started to walk home and wondered to myself why does she want to die so soon.
For the list of symptoms about the H1N1 for paragraph number 2 here is a link:
http://www.suite101.com/content/swine-flu-vaccine-side-effects-a150414
Thursday, December 30, 2010
HW 26 - Looking back & forward in unit
While watching the different movies throughout the illness and dying unit i learned a lot of different information about the world around me. While watching the movie SICKO i realized that health care companies didn't care about people like i thought they did. I always thought that health care companies paid for all your needs and everything else, but then when i watched the movie i finally realized that what i was thinking about pretty much wrong. And while reading the book Tuesdays with Morrie for the first time i finally saw life in a different perspective, and also thought differently about a lot of things.
One question would be why do people care more about people when they are close to dying than when they aren't dying nor sick?
Another question would be why do people visit people when they are close to dying but when they aren't close to dying they don't give a hell about them?
One question would be why do people care more about people when they are close to dying than when they aren't dying nor sick?
Another question would be why do people visit people when they are close to dying but when they aren't close to dying they don't give a hell about them?
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