Comment number one to Lora:
Personally I like how you in the middle of your post stated all of the main parts of Beth's story. As well something that you could of expanded on in your post was your third insight that" It also opened my mind more in the fact that if i am sick that i cant just not admit it to myself i have to take the next step and see a doctor and what i can do to get better." I think you could of expanded this one and go a little deeper and maybe put your self in a practical situation and discuss it a little more. But otherwise for the most part I feel that you gave a good output of your own feelings and insights on the topic.
PS: Watch your grammar and sentence wording in your first paragraph.
Comment number two to Jayson:
Jayson I liked how in your last paragraph you stated how Ms. Wood's presentation pushed you to think about the time we have available with our loved ones and how it could be cut short at any time and we should appreciate it. Although you have a great insight here I would suggest that you elaborate more on your insight by giving a personal example from your own life. Maybe someone in your family has passed away, give an example. To give you an idea of what I mean I try to spend a good amount of time with my grandfather because he's in a declining condition with his breathing problems from old age and smoking. It's something as simple as sharing a small part of your family with others to make a point and I feel that this would bring out your insight in a more vibrant fashion making your writing better.
Thursday, December 9, 2010
Monday, December 6, 2010
HW 21 - Expert #1
Insights:
-The fact that at any moment you could be diagnosed with any disease that would change your life is just breath taking to me. Its amazing that you could be plagued with a death sentence at any point in time of your life. In Beth's case this sad sadistic occurrence fell upon her family. I find it hard that Beth even had the courage and will power to share her feelings on her husbands cancer. What was going through my head as she shared such personal parts of her husbands problems was why? Why would she get in front of a class of almost 30 students and tell us the story of his last few months and how it effect her and the rest of her family? What could doing this possibly help her with? I have such a hard time discussing my own family losses in general with anyone.
-When my cousin Richard died, god bless him, but my family and myself was devastated and would never even think of talking to a group of high school students about the experience of us going through that as individuals. Beth's experience of sharing with us her stories gives me ideas of letting my feelings and thoughts and experiences out about my lost love ones. The reason being is she gives me courage in doing so because of her being able to share her own personal family tragedies. So maybe one day if I think about Beth's stories I to will decide to share my stories of my lost loved ones and not feel scared or not in the right state of mind to go through with it.
-The fact that at any moment you could be diagnosed with any disease that would change your life is just breath taking to me. Its amazing that you could be plagued with a death sentence at any point in time of your life. In Beth's case this sad sadistic occurrence fell upon her family. I find it hard that Beth even had the courage and will power to share her feelings on her husbands cancer. What was going through my head as she shared such personal parts of her husbands problems was why? Why would she get in front of a class of almost 30 students and tell us the story of his last few months and how it effect her and the rest of her family? What could doing this possibly help her with? I have such a hard time discussing my own family losses in general with anyone.
-When my cousin Richard died, god bless him, but my family and myself was devastated and would never even think of talking to a group of high school students about the experience of us going through that as individuals. Beth's experience of sharing with us her stories gives me ideas of letting my feelings and thoughts and experiences out about my lost love ones. The reason being is she gives me courage in doing so because of her being able to share her own personal family tragedies. So maybe one day if I think about Beth's stories I to will decide to share my stories of my lost loved ones and not feel scared or not in the right state of mind to go through with it.
Wednesday, December 1, 2010
HW 19 - Family Perspective on Illness & Dying.
My fathers opinion on Illness and dying:
"My own father died of a heart attack and he died within minutes of a heart attack and although it was shock because he was at a such a young age and it happened so quickly, he was healthy one minute and dead the next. Now compared that to my mother whom had a rare brain disease and died slowly over two years reverting or going back to a helpless infant. When I look at both of these ways i would rather die in minutes. It was much more difficult to watch someone you love to die slowly deteriorating in front of your eyes and you cant do anything about it and my mother gave me the power of allowing her not to be put on tubes , not to be kept alive artificially and die in her own home which was her wish. so for use we lived up to her wishes and we felt she made the right decision because it was what she wanted and it to us it was more comforting , we all knew the outcome it wasn't a secret. We were happy we could live up to her wishes and we allowed because we had the power so the doctors couldn't put on life support, she felt when the time was ready she would die. to think about we could of prolonged her life another six months but she would of suffered. It was an incurable disease to this day it is still an incurable disease. It slowly paralyzed her entire body. The disease today is still incurable to this day."
"When my grandfathers died in those days they were considered old 65 to 70 years old they just died. One died of cancer the other one died in a car accident. In those days there was nothing you could do for cancer. After you have the funeral their buried, then what could you possible do they are gone. You miss you love them but now they are gone, all you can do is remember the good times with them you can miss them but their really isn't anything you can do. Fortunately you remember them but life has to go on. You can remember the good times, remember the fun you have with them, remember the things they said. But life goes on."
"My sister had lung cancer which was a life changing experience for her because she was cured. she lived with fear of knowing that she could possibly die and then found out that she was one of the lucky ones that the doctors were able to cure. But she still worries about the cancer coming back and killing her. therefore this experience that she has gone though was a life changing experience. She goes thorough life now looking at things differently, she doesn't sweat the small stuff, in other words she realizes that having good health is probably the most important that a person could have. Without good health either your gonna suffer for the rest of your life or and what frightens her the most was knowing that lung cancer is a very horrible way to die. Its a very long and slow process. Im sure she knows had they not been able to cure her that it is a very horrible death, you suffocate to death, you suffer is really the bottom line there because its a slow death. Some people suffer for years and then die its painful, its a terrible way to die , some of these diereses are just horrible."
"My own father died of a heart attack and he died within minutes of a heart attack and although it was shock because he was at a such a young age and it happened so quickly, he was healthy one minute and dead the next. Now compared that to my mother whom had a rare brain disease and died slowly over two years reverting or going back to a helpless infant. When I look at both of these ways i would rather die in minutes. It was much more difficult to watch someone you love to die slowly deteriorating in front of your eyes and you cant do anything about it and my mother gave me the power of allowing her not to be put on tubes , not to be kept alive artificially and die in her own home which was her wish. so for use we lived up to her wishes and we felt she made the right decision because it was what she wanted and it to us it was more comforting , we all knew the outcome it wasn't a secret. We were happy we could live up to her wishes and we allowed because we had the power so the doctors couldn't put on life support, she felt when the time was ready she would die. to think about we could of prolonged her life another six months but she would of suffered. It was an incurable disease to this day it is still an incurable disease. It slowly paralyzed her entire body. The disease today is still incurable to this day."
"When my grandfathers died in those days they were considered old 65 to 70 years old they just died. One died of cancer the other one died in a car accident. In those days there was nothing you could do for cancer. After you have the funeral their buried, then what could you possible do they are gone. You miss you love them but now they are gone, all you can do is remember the good times with them you can miss them but their really isn't anything you can do. Fortunately you remember them but life has to go on. You can remember the good times, remember the fun you have with them, remember the things they said. But life goes on."
"My sister had lung cancer which was a life changing experience for her because she was cured. she lived with fear of knowing that she could possibly die and then found out that she was one of the lucky ones that the doctors were able to cure. But she still worries about the cancer coming back and killing her. therefore this experience that she has gone though was a life changing experience. She goes thorough life now looking at things differently, she doesn't sweat the small stuff, in other words she realizes that having good health is probably the most important that a person could have. Without good health either your gonna suffer for the rest of your life or and what frightens her the most was knowing that lung cancer is a very horrible way to die. Its a very long and slow process. Im sure she knows had they not been able to cure her that it is a very horrible death, you suffocate to death, you suffer is really the bottom line there because its a slow death. Some people suffer for years and then die its painful, its a terrible way to die , some of these diereses are just horrible."
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