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I just saw the doctors show and there was a women who suffered from back pain and she barley moves so they had to do for her a surgery and inject her with something..
I really don’t know what they injection is..but they took something from her body and inject it again somewhere else!
I also heared that it can help ppl who can’t work or move!
Please If someone can help me find what the surgery name is or something!
(P.S: my father have parkinson)

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how does one deal with the question from that relative, "i’m ok and ready to come home now", every time one visits that person?
Do you keep bsing and telling them, "Not until the doctors say it’s ok", or do you tell them they’re never coming back to what they remember as their last home?

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I am 19 years old, my mother has parkinson (it started when she was 40) and my mother’s aunt has parkinson too..
I want to know if I inherited it or not, is there a way or a test? what kind of doctors should i vistit?

thanks.

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I’m 24, and have been an adult for awhile, but certain circumstances won’t allow me to fully develop into who I want to become.

I still live at home with my mom, who needs constant caregiving, has depression, and guilts me for her loneliness. I can’t really leave, because I love her and I would feel bad if anything were to happen to her. I have no other family members to help me care for her, and I am an only child. I have to be with her all the time to take her to doctors appointments, run her errands, make sure she doesn’t fall asleep in the sink with the water running/fall down the stairs, ect. and give her constant companionship.

I have great relationships in my life, take care of my own bills/laundry/household duties, and have a career that is finally starting to take off, but she has this thing with wanting to hold me back. When I want to sleep over at friends’ houses for a few nights to get away, she throws a fit, and guilts me into staying with her because she doesn’t want to be by herself. I can’t even go over to my boyfriend’s house to spend the night without her threatening to disown me, or starting up some rabid argument. On many occasions I have been invited on road trips, traveling, or events, but I can never go because she guilts me into not going, or makes me think that something bad is going to happen to her when I’m not there, so I am afraid she will be alone, and lonely and some tragic thing will happen. In my career, when I talk about going to business meetings/trips and such, she expects to go with me, or follow me, though it is inappropriate.

She is retired, doesn’t really have any hobbies, has friends but doesn’t really like to go out often, refuses to date, and her main interest is just everything involving me and everything I do. No doubt I love her, and the closeness we share, but this is grating on my nerves and I feel constant depression and anxiety from her doing this CONSTANTLY. There is so much I want to do in my life and accomplish, but she has this thing where she wants to follow me everywhere and watch everything I do and hold me back from being anywhere at a distance.

HELP ME. I feel like i’m suffocating and there is nothing I can do to improve my life with this situation going on. I don’t want to leave her cause she does need my help, and we do have a pretty great relationship, but her constant strain on me is limiting me from everyday adult privileges and indepedance.When talking to her about this, she cries,and goes on a screaming rampage and cusses up a storm,and gets angry at the very thought of me leaving her alone for even just one night…

I just want to be an adult so badly.

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My sons body vibrates. It is noticeable in his hands and head. Everything I search points to parkinson’s. His grandfather and great grandfather have been diagnosed with parkinson’s, but the doctors I’ve asked say that my son can’t have it because he’s too young. (My son is 10.) I don’t think the disease cares how old a person is.

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4 months ago, my brother went crazy and called the ambulance on himself. he keeps saying he has alzheimers disease, while the doctors diagnose him with severe depression. anyways, he keeps pleading my parents to move, so we did. we’re investing in a new house.

this is our last month living in this house, and recently, one of our cats just died. we found her dead on the road. (http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AhG.35OjyQi75YgLfh5OH2Lty6IX;_ylv=3?qid=20090614233903AAx9cJ2) And so we grieved her.

last week, our garage door broke down. we were about to enter it in our car when it started making a rumbling noise and then crashed straight down.

now, our laundry is broken. O.O

normally, I dont believe in supernatural stuff, but this is getting weird. what do you think? (besides the fact that this question is too long)
cat: http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AgvIjvqs6c78Dm_2FGSu.bPty6IX;_ylv=3?qid=20090614233903AAx9cJ2

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First of all the education by itself is very long and time consuming. We are talking about 4 years of college, 4 years of medical school and additionally ,depending on the specialty that a person chooses another 3-7 years of residency.And if a person decided to do a fellowship then we are talking about another 3 years. Plus at this time the salary comes to be less than the minimum wage
Second of all is the pure cost of it. The cost of education is really high ,and it does not matter what school you will attend,well at least thats my own opinion but in addition to whatever college debt is gathered , the average graduate of a medical school if looking at approximately another $ 120.000 of debt , and thats a lot and what if a person decided that being a doc. is not something they wanna do ? That person just wasted a lot of time of their life , not speaking about money i mean thats a huge bill to pay off .
Third reason is the lifestyle. It is difficult during medical school and residency. Expect lots of time studying, late nights on call. Some people might even go through a divorce due to the stress that it puts on the marriage. Also residency training is not a ideal time to start a family so often people face the choice of either postponing that and thus being on the older side or trying to start a family in the midst of other huge demands for your time.And speaking of it. Lifestyle will also greatly depend on what kind of medicine you decide to practice, where you decide to practice, and to what kind of clientele will you have . If you decide to be a doctor in an inner-city clinic you may not make very much. If you are a plastic surgeon to the rich and famous in Beverly Hills, you will be a millionaire.Most doctors can expect their home life to be disrupted by work. Again, however, how much will all decide on what type of medicine you practice and where. If you work at a hospital doing emergency surgeries you will have to work many holidays, and you will often get home hours and hours after you are scheduled to get off. If, however you have a private practice, you might have to take some time to see some patients that are in the hospital on the holidays, but it might take 2-3 hours out of your day, at most. No matter what field of medicine you go into, however, you will not see your family much while you go through medical school, and especially while you do your residency.
And last but not least the factor of malpractice.Unfortunately, we live in a very litigious society. 2/3 of all doctors will get sued at least once in his/her career. Depending on your specialty, it may even be higher. It’s an unfortunate reality that despite your best efforts, this can still happen to you. Few other professions have such a high risk for liability.the pros are that you get to help people get better and help their families to gain confidence and to still carry hope, or to just make people better, the cons are diagnosing a patient with a disease that slowly destroys their body or that will affect them and their family, for instance, alzheimers disease.

those are the 3 paragraphs of my essay this is for homework

sorry its long if you have time and patience to read it thne i appreciate it

my question is did it cover it through ??am i missing something ???
there are actually 4 paragraphs
1.cost of education
2.time consuming training
3.lifestyle
4.malpractice
and at the end there is 5th paragraph my general reflection about this occupation and then the conclusion

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My grandmother has had Alzheimer’s for the past 11-12 years. My mother and I think my grandmother is entering the final stages.. she talks infrequently (but still shouts when she’s upset), doesn’t smile often, wants to go to bed more often and is completely incontinent. She can still eat and walk, but her muscles are weak and a neck pillow is used for head support.

I’ve been her caretaker on and off in the past. My mother is currently the sole caretaker, but it’s getting to the point that she can’t do it alone. She’s a small-framed woman, and not physically capable of lifting and turning my grandma, especially when my grandma is fighting (which she does often).

I want to go back to help, my grandparents raised me and I consider them more like parents. It’s especially needed since I’m much stronger than my mom and I’ve been a carer previously, both as a job, with my grandma and twice when another close family member had cancer. There’s no money for any sort of paid care help, it went to medical expenses for my grandfather’s cancer. The rest of my family is really messed up, so they aren’t any help either. She’s also not eligible for Medicare since my grandfather was a fireman and the pension/insurance stuff was done privately through the local government.

The problem is that I live in Norway and my family is in the US. I have dual Swedish citizenship and have lived all of my adult life in Europe (except when I’ve been caretaker), so it’s not like I’m here on exchange and can just return to my life in the US. I am tied into a lease and contract agreements, and my boyfriend will be left here to pay everything alone (we’re both students and work as well, and we’re in one of the most expensive countries in the world). He’s not American, so he can’t come with me anyway.

I feel sort of horrible and selfish for asking, but I need to know what sort of timeline is expected in the late stages, so that I can deal with things (like finances, job, school, etc) here before I leave. Doctors haven’t been much help, and the internet is very vague. I know it differs a lot from case to case and can turn quickly, but in your personal experience, what happened in the late stages and how long did each part last? I really appreciate anyone that’s willing to share, it’s not an easy subject.

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My mother has been diagnosed with the first two by different doctors. She has also been diagnosed with Cortical Basal Degeneration and Posterior Cortical Atrophy. Overall her disorder is mostly in movement, although she has slight memory issue and "alien hand syndrome."

How can I tell if it’s "vascular dementia" or the other dementias I am seeing?

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When I was born, my mom tells me that I didn’t breathe for about 1:30 minutes. I was made to breathe by mouth to mouth inhalation (I don’t know the specific term for that) by the doctor (or whatever he/she is called). Then I cried and took breath. Some other doctors told my mom that it is necessary for a child to cry the instant he is taken out. The longer the delay, the more brain cells become dead.

Now since few months, I have started forgetting things (including very important to-do things). Along with hypersexuality for many years. Plus very frequent mood swings which I thought was because of bi-polar disorder; excessive talkativeness when among peers. Excess of solitude when among other people whom I’m familiar with but are not peer-like. I repeat and may become too much discontinuous while explaining something or while reading. I was very poor at school as well.

I know that I am suffering from depression and bi-polar (if not Alzheimer’s) but some of the symptoms look like Alzheimer’s disease. I may be wrong because I don’t know much about it. I just read some articles on internet. Could this be Alzheimer’s?

Please help!

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