Today I did an interview with Louise Sattler who is the creative owner/operator of http://www.signingfamilies.com. Louise is an expert trainer at workshops and classes that teach American Sign Language to help people communicate with one another. She is also a certified school psychologist who has an awareness of the importance of the need for families and community leaders to learn sign language. Sign Language opens doors and bridges gaps for people who are hearing impaired, or who may have developmental delays or special needs. Communication is something that many people take for granted.
Put yourself in the position of a person who is hearing impaired, or a person who lives with special needs; and, consider some environments they they may experience differently than you; such as a trip to the hospital or emergency room. How different would the experience be for you if you were the one who had difficulty making your needs known to the health care professionals. Or say you are an elderly person who is experiencing hearing loss…how are you going to communicate with other residents or say the staff? How about shopping or getting educational services at college or in elementary school? How about ordering a meal in a restaurant? Do you see how the quality of life can be improved for people impacted in this way? Can you see how sign language could open doors for people if others in the community took the opportunity to learn it from someone like Louise or through her DVD’s?
Click on Image to listen to InterviewIf you are interested in learning more about Louise and her educational services please listen to the interview here: http://www.rapidcashmarketing.com/lorrainesinterview/signingfamilies.htm
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Teen Dies After Breast Surgery
Posted in Beauty, death, emergency, health, hospital, surgery, tagged breast, comments, controversy, criticisim, death, family, judged, medical profession, plastic surgery, reaction, self esteem, vanity on March 31, 2008| 1 Comment »
I read a sad story this past week about a beautiful, 18 year old young woman who had CORRECTIVE BREAST SURGERY and died from complications of the surgery at a Florida hospital. The young woman had physical problems with her breasts, which is why she was having the surgery in the first place. The reason that she died is because she allegedy had a rare type of reaction from the anestheisia; from what news reports i read.
Some of the comments that readers of the article submitted were not only negative; but, actually condemed the young woman for having the surgery in the first place. Understand, the was a medically CORRECTIVE, procedure. She was not correcting a previous plastic surgery…it was to correct physical/medical issues.
Many of the comments made were putting the young woman down. I wonder, if the young woman was having surgery to remove an appendix or some such other medical procedure; if she would be judged in the same way. Or, is she criticized because the surgery was plastic surgery in nature; were they assuming she was trying to increase her cup size only? There is a large segment of the population that is “gifting” their teenagers with plastic surgeries because they desire it and because it boosts their self esteem. This is very controversial issue.
I personally feel that those who were harsh about her surgery and subsequent death were making an assumption that this surgery was about vanity as opposed to what she felt was a necessary procedure.
It seems, according to the articles that i read, that the rare reaction to the anestheisia runs in the young lady’s family. When they have surgery with the anestheisia their bodies go into a very high temperature and reacts in a way that can cause death.
Unfortunately, there is no way to know ahead of time if a person’s body will react this way; until, there is a reaction. Still, it does seem like there should have been at least a heads up notification to the medical personel doing the procedure; and maybe there was for all any of us know. Still, it is a tragedy; this young lady wanted to grow up and be a part of the medical profession herself.
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