Medical Illnesses

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When a loved one is diagnosed with dementia, the world can feel like it's tilting on its axis. Fear, confusion, and heartache become constant companions as you grapple with the challenges of caregiving and the profound changes in your relationship. But amidst the storm, there is hope, resilience, and a path toward acceptance that can lead to a more meaningful and fulfilling journey. In this deeply personal and empowering book, a caregiver shares their experience of navigating the complexities of dementia. With warmth, compassion, and practical wisdom, they guide you through the emotional ...

Completely revised and expanded in 2016. Based on the award-winning Bloodsugar101.com web site, this book explains what peer-reviewed research published in top medical journals has to say about: What is a normal blood sugar? How does diabetes develop? What really causes diabetes? What blood sugar levels cause complications? Must you deteriorate? What diet is right for you? How can you make that diet work? What medications are safe? What supplements lower blood sugar? This book provides all the tools needed to understand how blood sugar works and achieve blood sugar health.

Julie Flygare was on an ambitious path to success, entering law school at age 22, when narcolepsy destroyed the neurological boundaries between dreaming and reality in her brain. She faced terrifying hallucinations, paralysis, and excruciating sleepiness, aspects of dream sleep taking place while wide awake. Yet, narcolepsy was a wake-up call for Julie. Her illness propelled her onto a journey she never imagined, from lying paralyzed on her apartment floor to dancing euphorically at a nightclub; from the classrooms of Harvard Medical School to the start line of the Boston Marathon.

Robert McCrum was 42 when he suffered a massive stroke which left one side of his body paralysed, his speech drastically impaired and his sense of himself radically altered. My Year Off traces McCrum's gruelling recovery as he regains sensation and begins to come to terms, with the help of his family, with what can and cannot be recovered after a grave injury. It is a moving remonstrance against human frailty and a vital and insightful exploration of hope, despair, determination and, ultimately, love.

From medical expert Leana Wen, MD, Lifelines is an insider's account of public health and its crucial role - from opioid addiction to global pandemic - and an inspiring story of her journey from struggling immigrant to being one of Time’s 100 Most Influential People.

Are you feeling overwhelmed by the financial, legal, and technological complexities of dementia caregiving? You're not alone. Millions of families struggle to balance the emotional and practical demands of caring for a loved one with dementia. "Compassionate Care: A Practical Handbook for Dementia Caregiving" is your essential guide to navigating this challenging journey with confidence and peace of mind. This comprehensive resource provides expert advice, practical strategies, and compassionate support to help you: Secure your loved one's financial future: Discover key resources, ...

Lost in My Mind is a stunning memoir describing Kelly Bouldin Darmofal's journey from adolescent girl to special education teacher, wife and mother - despite severe Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI). Spanning three decades, Kelly's journey is unique in its focus on TBI education in America (or lack thereof).

An estimated 50 million people in the world suffer from dementia. Diseases such as Alzheimer’s erase parts of one’s memory but are also often said to erase the self. People don’t simply die from such diseases; they are imagined, in the clichés of our era, as vanishing in plain sight, fading away, or enduring a long goodbye. In On Vanishing, Lynn Casteel Harper, a Baptist minister and nursing home chaplain, investigates the myths and metaphors surrounding dementia and aging....

Over three million people are diagnosed with Alzheimer's every year in the US. Alzheimer's affects the entire family. A diagnosis of Alzheimer's can be confusing and devastating at the same time. Author Laura Town's personal experience with this disease, and co-author Karen Kassel's pharmacology background, make them the perfect team to unravel the mysteries of Alzheimer's.

Ally was at a breaking point when she woke up in a psych ward at the age of 18. She couldn't put a sentence together, let alone take a shower, eat a meal, or pick up a phone. What had gone wrong? In recent years, she had produced a feature film, a popular reality show for a major network, and had acted in an off-Broadway play. But now Ally was pushed to a psychotic break after struggling since she was seven years old with physical symptoms that no doctor could explain - everything from joint pain to night sweats, memory loss, nausea, and brain fog.

Over the last decade, scientists have discovered the importance and widespread presence in the body of a remarkable family of proteins known as prion proteins. Research links various types of prion proteins to neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson's and Alzheimer's—and this has fueled the search for new drugs that could halt the progression of these terrible disorders. Other discoveries have revealed the essential roles prion proteins play in memory and immunity, and the part they may have played in the beginnings of life on our planet.

The Gene is the story of one of the most powerful and dangerous ideas in our history, from best-selling, prize-winning author Siddhartha Mukherjee. Spanning the globe and several centuries, The Gene is the story of the quest to decipher the master code that makes and defines humans, that governs our form and function. The story of the gene begins in an obscure Augustinian abbey in Moravia in 1856, where a monk stumbles on the idea of a 'unit of heredity'.

When American saxophonist and social activist Fred Ho was diagnosed with stage 3b colo-rectal cancer in 2006 he underwent immediate surgery to remove the tumor and began preparing for chemotherapy. Within days his friends mobilized to arrange grocery deliveries, transport, companionship, and housekeeping duties - they called themselves “Warriors for Fred”. Fred chose to write his astonishing cancer memoir as a diary, acknowledging that all the greatest warriors wrote daily diaries.

Dive into a world where the norm is subverted, survival instinct kicks in, and knowledge becomes your ultimate power. Welcome to "The Zombie Medic" - your comprehensive guide to prevailing through a zombie apocalypse. As the title suggests, this isn't your everyday survival eBook. What if a zombie apocalypse overthrows our healthcare system? How do you address emergency medical situations amidst chaos? These compelling questions often go unanswered - until now. "The Zombie Medic" deciphers the secrets of survival in an undead world and prepares you to react, rescue, and recover when the ...

Vernon Coleman's books have sold over two million hardback and paperback copies in the UK alone - and been translated into 25 languages. His books include the bestselling Young Country Doctor series and Mrs Caldicot's Cabbage War (which has been turned into an award winning movie). Mr Henry Mulligan is a poignant and uplifting romantic mystery about the disappearance of an elderly couple from an English hospital. Where have they gone? And why? A newly qualified doctor working in the hospital tries to find them. Moving and revealing and based on a true story. Vernon Coleman, a Sunday Times ...

Thyroid management in the United States has not significantly changed over the past 40 years despite reams of new research that is mostly ignored or even vilified by the medical establishment. There has become a substantial difference between what is considered the standard of care of thyroid management and what the latest research and evidence shows is most beneficial. As a result, thyroid patients are feeling worse and getting less benefit than ever before despite using the standard thyroid treatment protocols.

A hopeful look at coping with the ravages of serious chronic illness by an accomplished journalist, a contributing columnist for the New York Times, and former senior producer of the CBS Evening News.

El autor de este libro pasó de trabajar en el mundo editorial, dar clases de interpretación actoral y estar bien considerado, a ser bipolar, con vida de bipolar, con pensión de bipolar. Y ser mirado y tratado como bipolar; en algunos casos con desconfianza, en otros con paternalismo y casi siempre con recelo.

We are all patients at some time. Is the medical industry giving us the best treatment possible, at the best price? We all know that it isn’t. My book, The Secrets of Medical Decision Making: How to avoid becoming a victim of the Health Care Machine, shows what goes on behind the scenes of the current medical care and how it impacts the patient. I describe actual cases from my clinical practice showing the most common paths that lead to increased patient suffering. I then offer possible solutions. My book covers all the health care settings a reader may encounter: outpatient (the most ...