Essays on Aching

Rhabdomyolysis

Introduction In normal conditions, muscles grow when certain activities cause the muscle fibers to become damaged and then subsequently regrown and developed through a series of cellular process. This activity occurs during the body is at rest. In other words, the continuous breakdown is normal for growing muscles as it allows them to become bigger through the introduction of myrofibrils, or muscle fibers. However, there is a condition when the muscle fibers break down rapidly due to a number of reasons, and then they do not regrow at a corresponding rate. This condition is known in medical circles as ...

[Institution Title] Clinical Case: Patient W.R.

The priorities of care

The first priority in relation to provision of care in the case of patient W.R is relieving him of the discomfort brought about by perceived unrelieved indigestion. The second priority is to address the elevated blood pressure of the patient. Finally, the third concern would be to transfer W.R to the Regional Medical Center so that he could be subjected to cardiac catheterization and given proper medical attention.

The Admission VS

For a man his age, the vital signs of W.R., in particular of his blood pressure recorded at 200/124 is not normal. The blood pressure ...

It is difficult to arrive at a common agreement about the meaning of pain. However, everyone will agree that pain implies physical discomfort. Pain can be in the form of aching, throbbing, smarting, stinging, pinching, pricking or burning. Most people associate pain with a physical injury. It can be a minor injury like a scratch or a major injury like a broken limb. The intensity and duration of the feeling of pain depends upon the seriousness of the injury. When we think of the term pain deeply, we realize that pain cannot be explained in a simple way. There are many types of pain. The understanding ...

"Robert Hayden"

The poem Those Winter Sundays by Robert Hayden tells about a hardworking foster father who does not get any appreciation from anyone. Robert Hayden was brought up in a poor family and he admired a foster father next door. Robert Hayden attended University of Michigan with H. Auden where he got much influence from Auden to continue writing. Robert also appreciated the work of other poets and his became his role models. Since Robert was black, most of his writings concentrated on race and he had lots of concern with racial expression. This particular poem was about a father who would wake ...

In Ann Petry’s short story, “Like a Winding Sheet,” the character of Johnson is revealed and develops from a tired man into an enraged one. The narrative is written in third person point of view and is set in the Harlem Ghettos. Immediately it is clear that Johnson and Mae are a seemingly happily married black couple. There have been much research that show tiredness, frustration and anger are related. "Like a Winding Sheet," provides a sound example of this link. While Johnson undoubtedly felt that he was doing the right thing by ignoring his tiredness and swallowing his frustration, he in fact ...