A pediatrician tackles an impending neurofibromatosis type 1 diagnosis in her infant son. As she appreciates the grace of the heroic parents of her patients who have profound medical challenges, she ...is hoping for new routes and techniques to help her son. Likening these hopes to an ocean, she then emphasizes that they will secure the sails and proceed to love, soothe, witness and snuggle.
Still Life with Timex chronicles a mother’s loss. These poems explore the unsightly aspects of grief and the survivor’s guilt of outliving a child. In the hospital with her son, the ...speaker directs her bitterness toward institutions and faith that do not do enough. Within this collection there are discoveries of life in its decay and remembrance. Blame indicts everyone—most especially the speaker herself, as she struggles to cope with shame as enduring as loss. from “On His Own” I stroke his shoulders, squared as they entered the world, my son bold as a cardinal’s wing against the white flames of magnolias.
Somebody’s Sunshine Pinto Taylor, Emily
JAMA : the journal of the American Medical Association,
03/2021, Letnik:
325, Številka:
11
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In this narrative medicine essay a geriatrics fellow describes the experience of preparing for and meeting her foster son and discusses her feelings of uncertainties that (mostly) melt away when ...sharing her new child's photo with a colleague the day after bringing him home.
Written in Australian poetic vernacular, Boy Out of the Country tells a story of land, family and belonging. %##CHAR13##%%##CHAR13##%A family property, worthless for generations, is suddenly zoned as ...part of a regional housing estate to accommodate an ever-increasing urban sprawl. At this moment of shifting economies and loyalties, Hunter returns from a seven-year absence. Finding his boyhood house boarded up and his mother in a retirement home, Hunter goes in search of answers. And he starts with his brother Gordon.
Finding His Voice Elwy, A. Rani
JAMA : the journal of the American Medical Association,
09/2020, Letnik:
324, Številka:
11
Journal Article
Recenzirano
A psychologist shares how she found her voice through writing and in patient care advocacy and how she helped her son, who has diagnosed with Schwartz-Jampel syndrome, also find his voice and share ...his own encounters to the world. She realizes that as her son grows up, he does not need her voice or modeling because he was able to find his own ways to highlight his strengths.
Like a Lake tells the story of Nico, his father (an Italian-American architect) and his mother (a Japanese-American sculptor). When the photographer Coda Gray befriends ten-year old Nico, the family ...is wrecked by its own perfection and readers find Northern California's post-war landscape giving way to fissures of alternative lifestyles.
The story of Moses's birth and salvation entails a collusion between three female figures: his biological mother (a Hebrew slave), his sister, and his Egyptian adoptive mother, Pharaoh's daughter. ...Through a close reading of the biblical text, the author shows how mother and daughter deliberately place the reed basket (or "ark") where it might be found by Pharaoh's daughter; the princess then defies her father's decree not only by saving the infant but in adopting him and raising him within the palace precincts. While rabbinic midrash sees the Egyptian princess as exceptional, portraying her anachronistically as a model convert and renaming her Bityah (that is, Batyah, daughter of Yah, God), the author conjectures that this collusion between Hebrew slavewomen and Egyptian aristocracy to save the infant Hebrew boy may very well have been a prevalent phenomenon. The essay closes with an original midrashic retelling of the narrative that highlights the alliance between Moses's Egyptian/Hebrew mothers.
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Diana Pineda Marwaha, Seema
Canadian Medical Association journal (CMAJ),
07/2021, Letnik:
193, Številka:
27
Journal Article
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Pineda talks about her life with multiple sclerosis (MS). Ten years ago, she lost her vision for a short while. After she had her son, half of her face was paralyzed for days. But she didn't see an ...MS specialist until about 2 years ago. Getting a diagnosis is like taking on another part-time job with all the appointments and testing you need to do. This is a struggle in her situation. She kept explaining her situation but quickly realized that the system didn't see her as a single mother working to make ends meet. She developed a reputation at the MRI department as a "difficult patient."
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