When your driving either on post, coming off, going to North Pole, or coming from North Pole during the day time and you come to that intersection with the four traffic lights that take you either to base, to North Pole, Steese Express or Airport Way, everything seems to be in order, you get where you need to be on time. Most of us have been through these lights plenty of times and nothing seems to be out of the ordinary. It is not until you come to the intersection sometime after mid-night when things get out of whack. So lets say your coming off post at one o'clock a.m, and you pull up to the traffic light and stop, your light has just turned red so your just waiting three more turns, now your waiting two more turns one more turn, then you take your foot off the break because you see the light just before yours turn yellow and your getting ready to go, and just as it turns red the light after yours turns green then you have to slam on breaks. Your thinking "what the heck just happened." So you pull up some more because you think "maybe I'm not close enough," and it skips you again. Then you pull back some because you think "well maybe I'm up too far," and again it skips you, now you don't know what to do. Then out of no where it turns green and you slam on the gas pedal to get the heck out of there as fast as possible, because you don't want to get stuck again.
The city doesn't know this because most of their work is done before this time. And in the summer they work on the roads so their work is during the day time. And even if they were to experience a moment like that, they still might just blow it off because they don't think that it happens too often.
If you work a grave yard shift this can really hurt you, because most people when they go to work they make sure they have just enough time to start their car and drive to work to be on time with no time to spare. Everything is going good until you come to the light and it skips your turn about two times and makes you late. Now you have to tell your boss you was late because the traffic light skipped you, can you imagine what your boss is thinking in their head, because they don't know about the light, so you know that they think your lying, but they don't tell you they just say okay. The next day it happens again, you tell them the same thing but this time they think it's just an excuse, but still they let it go. For some reason you still seem to go that way even though you know it's just going to happen again.
What about when you have a date, you don't want to be late on the first date, but you can't control the time or that light so what happens, your late because of that light. Now the first time your late your date thinks nothing of it, but too many times and you won't have to worry about being late late for that date anymore because you won't be seeing them anymore.
A lot of times when people come to that light they stop and wait for their turn as normal, but when they see that it skips them they get impatient, they might wait one maybe two more times, but eventually they will loose patience and just run it. And you know they have to really be impatient because they know that there is a camera above the traffic light and they still just run it, even if they know the risks. If only ten maybe even fifteen people got together and either complained which might get them no where or requested that they fix the lights then it would make everyone else's life just that much better.
Although the Airport Way street lights work during the day, the city should come at night to service them because they often skip turns, it would help people to get where they need to go on time, and they would have less people running red lights.
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Week 6 Essay 2 Final Draft
Congental Insensitivity to Pain with Anhidrosis is also known as CIPA by doctors and the families who have someone with the disease. CIPA is a very rare genetic disorder in which the person who has it feels no pain at all. Oh how the kids would love that, to be able to fall down and not get hurt. Now as a kid I'm pretty sure we all couldn't stand the thought of going to the hospital, and when we found out that we had to go we tried everything in our power to make our parents change their mind, but it never worked not one time. And after every visit it always ends in the same way, you get the diagnosis, you get the shot, you feel the pain, and then you get the bad tasting lollipop and go home in pain and agony.
Now put yourself in your parents shoes, they don't like the fact that we have to go to the doctor, because they know as a kid we will leave in tears, and it's nothing they can do about that. But once it's over we don't have to return for awhile, but the families who have kids with CIPA go to the hospital three times as much as the average family. And some of them actually go everyday, to get anti-biotics and other things along those lines. The parent has to get up everyday; early in the morning and take the child to the hospital just to get them prepared for another day. Imagine how the parents feel to have to take turns out of their everyday life to go visit the hospital, I would imagine it would get very exhausting. The only problem is it has to be done, there is no way around it. It's the same as going to the hospital as a healthy child except without the pain and tears, and it's everyday or more often than normal, and everyday it gets even more exhausting for both the parents and the child.
If a child without CIPA feels severe pain in the abdomen their parents will notice it right away because of the screaming and crying. So what does the parent do, they take them to the hospital to see what is going on only to find out that they have a minor case of food poisoning. But what about the kids who have CIPA they wouldn't be able to feel the pain. They do experience some kind of dis-comfort but the problem with that is that they might think it's normal. They would think it's nothing and wouldn't think to tell their parents and just go on about their day, it's like when a healthy person begins to get a cold they start to sneeze and get a running nose but they think it's just allergies, until a few days later they don't feel like getting out of bed. That's how they see it, they think it's nothing and blow it off. Some of those parents fear what they don't know, and the fact that their child could have internal damage and don't know it, it forces them to live in a world of constant fear. They can have fractured bones and wouldn't be able to tell their parents, sometimes people that can feel pain, breaks or fractures bones and don't even know it.
It's because they can't feel pain internally, why they have to have frequent or daily visits to the emergency room. Also what about the very serious conditions or diseases that causes pain first then the fatal effects later, they might not be able to catch it in time. Also concussions are a problem as well because healthy kids can have them and don't know it so just picture the ones with CIPA.
Remember all the fun things you use to do as a child like, jump from bed to bed, or climb trees, then you would fall down and get hurt and your parents would bring the alcohol that makes it hurt even more, then you would get back up and start it again like you didn't just get hurt. Well the parent's of the children who have CIPA are less fortunate, they may never get the chance to see their children do those fun things because of a harmless injury that could eventually become serious if left untreated.
Some of the parents that have kids with CIPA allow their children to play and have fun, however they are limited. The victims of CIPA don't sweat, so their body can't cool itself down like ours can so heat is dangerous to them, so the kids aren't able to stay outside in the summer for too long. Also if the parents do let their children play, every time they are done playing the child's whole body has to be checked for small cuts and bruises that could get infected leading to serious injury. Some of the parents that have children with CIPA go through with this and just do the daily checks, but other parents just can't handle it and think it's best for their child to stay inside, and so they miss the moments where they get to see their child ride a bike and clean their wounds after a fall.
Most of the children if they make it past the rough childhood don't get the chance to die of old age. It's either a heat stroke because they don't sweat or of something internally that they are unaware of. So feeling pain might be a good factor in our everyday life, after all how else would we know not to touch the stove, that's how we learn about pain as a kid through experience.
Although kids who have Congental Insensitivity to Pain with Anhidrosis feel no pain and they think everything is okay, the disease causes great suffering for the parents of inflicted children, because of the horrible visits to the hospital their kids have to endure everyday, the thought of their child having internal damage and they don't even know it, and because of the things they won't be able to see their kids do as a child.
Now put yourself in your parents shoes, they don't like the fact that we have to go to the doctor, because they know as a kid we will leave in tears, and it's nothing they can do about that. But once it's over we don't have to return for awhile, but the families who have kids with CIPA go to the hospital three times as much as the average family. And some of them actually go everyday, to get anti-biotics and other things along those lines. The parent has to get up everyday; early in the morning and take the child to the hospital just to get them prepared for another day. Imagine how the parents feel to have to take turns out of their everyday life to go visit the hospital, I would imagine it would get very exhausting. The only problem is it has to be done, there is no way around it. It's the same as going to the hospital as a healthy child except without the pain and tears, and it's everyday or more often than normal, and everyday it gets even more exhausting for both the parents and the child.
If a child without CIPA feels severe pain in the abdomen their parents will notice it right away because of the screaming and crying. So what does the parent do, they take them to the hospital to see what is going on only to find out that they have a minor case of food poisoning. But what about the kids who have CIPA they wouldn't be able to feel the pain. They do experience some kind of dis-comfort but the problem with that is that they might think it's normal. They would think it's nothing and wouldn't think to tell their parents and just go on about their day, it's like when a healthy person begins to get a cold they start to sneeze and get a running nose but they think it's just allergies, until a few days later they don't feel like getting out of bed. That's how they see it, they think it's nothing and blow it off. Some of those parents fear what they don't know, and the fact that their child could have internal damage and don't know it, it forces them to live in a world of constant fear. They can have fractured bones and wouldn't be able to tell their parents, sometimes people that can feel pain, breaks or fractures bones and don't even know it.
It's because they can't feel pain internally, why they have to have frequent or daily visits to the emergency room. Also what about the very serious conditions or diseases that causes pain first then the fatal effects later, they might not be able to catch it in time. Also concussions are a problem as well because healthy kids can have them and don't know it so just picture the ones with CIPA.
Remember all the fun things you use to do as a child like, jump from bed to bed, or climb trees, then you would fall down and get hurt and your parents would bring the alcohol that makes it hurt even more, then you would get back up and start it again like you didn't just get hurt. Well the parent's of the children who have CIPA are less fortunate, they may never get the chance to see their children do those fun things because of a harmless injury that could eventually become serious if left untreated.
Some of the parents that have kids with CIPA allow their children to play and have fun, however they are limited. The victims of CIPA don't sweat, so their body can't cool itself down like ours can so heat is dangerous to them, so the kids aren't able to stay outside in the summer for too long. Also if the parents do let their children play, every time they are done playing the child's whole body has to be checked for small cuts and bruises that could get infected leading to serious injury. Some of the parents that have children with CIPA go through with this and just do the daily checks, but other parents just can't handle it and think it's best for their child to stay inside, and so they miss the moments where they get to see their child ride a bike and clean their wounds after a fall.
Most of the children if they make it past the rough childhood don't get the chance to die of old age. It's either a heat stroke because they don't sweat or of something internally that they are unaware of. So feeling pain might be a good factor in our everyday life, after all how else would we know not to touch the stove, that's how we learn about pain as a kid through experience.
Although kids who have Congental Insensitivity to Pain with Anhidrosis feel no pain and they think everything is okay, the disease causes great suffering for the parents of inflicted children, because of the horrible visits to the hospital their kids have to endure everyday, the thought of their child having internal damage and they don't even know it, and because of the things they won't be able to see their kids do as a child.
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
Week 10: Rough Draft
Although the Airport Way street lights work during the day, the city should come at night to service them because they often skip turns, it would help people to get where they need to go on time, and they would have less people running red lights.
When your driving either on post, coming off, going to North Pole, or coming from North Pole during the day time and you come to that intersection with the four traffic lights that take you either to base, to North Pole, Steese Express or Airport Way, everything seems to be in order, you get where you need to be on time. Most of us been through these lights plenty of times and nothing seems to be out of the ordinary. It is not until you come to the intersection sometime after mid-night when things get out of wack. So your coming of post at one 0'clock a.m. and you pull up to the traffic light and stop, you light has just turned red so your jus waiting three more turns, now your waiting two more turns, one more tunr, then you take your foot off the gas because you see the light just before yours turn yellow and your getting ready to go and just as it turns red the light after yours turns green then you have to slam on breaks. Your thinking "what the heck just happened." So you pull up some more because we think "maybe we aren't close enough," and it skips us again. Then we pull back some because we think "well maybe we are too far," and again it skips us, now we don't know what to do. Then out of nowhere it turns green and we slam on the gas pedal to get the heck out of there as fast as possible, because we don't want to get stuck again.
The city doesn't know this because most of their work is done before this time. And in the summer they really work during the day time. And even if they were to experience a moment like that they still might just blow it of because they don't think it happens too often.
If you work a grave yard shift this can really hurt you because most when they go to work they make sure they have just enough time to start their car and drive to work to be on time with no time to spare. Everything is going good until you come to the light and it skips your turn about two times and make you late. Now you have to tell your boss you was late because the traffic light skipped you, can imagine what your boss is thinking in their head, because they don't know about the light so you know that they think your lying but they don't tell you they just say okay. The next day it happens again you tell them the same thing but this time they think it's just an excuse, but still they let go. For some reason you still seem to go that way even though you know it's just going to happen.
What about when you have a date, you don't want to be late on the first date, but you can't control the time or the laight so what happens , your late because of that light. Now the first time your late your date thinks nothing of it but too many time and you won't have to worry about being late for that date anymore because you won't be seeing them anymore.
Alot of times when people come to that light they stop and wait for their turn but when they see that it skips them they might wait maybe one more time but eventually they will loose patience and just run it. And you know they have to really be impatient because they know that there is a camera above the traffic lights and they still just go, even if they know the risks. If only ten maybe even fifteen people got together and either complained which might get them nowhere or requseted that they fix the lights then it would make everyone else life just that much better.
When your driving either on post, coming off, going to North Pole, or coming from North Pole during the day time and you come to that intersection with the four traffic lights that take you either to base, to North Pole, Steese Express or Airport Way, everything seems to be in order, you get where you need to be on time. Most of us been through these lights plenty of times and nothing seems to be out of the ordinary. It is not until you come to the intersection sometime after mid-night when things get out of wack. So your coming of post at one 0'clock a.m. and you pull up to the traffic light and stop, you light has just turned red so your jus waiting three more turns, now your waiting two more turns, one more tunr, then you take your foot off the gas because you see the light just before yours turn yellow and your getting ready to go and just as it turns red the light after yours turns green then you have to slam on breaks. Your thinking "what the heck just happened." So you pull up some more because we think "maybe we aren't close enough," and it skips us again. Then we pull back some because we think "well maybe we are too far," and again it skips us, now we don't know what to do. Then out of nowhere it turns green and we slam on the gas pedal to get the heck out of there as fast as possible, because we don't want to get stuck again.
The city doesn't know this because most of their work is done before this time. And in the summer they really work during the day time. And even if they were to experience a moment like that they still might just blow it of because they don't think it happens too often.
If you work a grave yard shift this can really hurt you because most when they go to work they make sure they have just enough time to start their car and drive to work to be on time with no time to spare. Everything is going good until you come to the light and it skips your turn about two times and make you late. Now you have to tell your boss you was late because the traffic light skipped you, can imagine what your boss is thinking in their head, because they don't know about the light so you know that they think your lying but they don't tell you they just say okay. The next day it happens again you tell them the same thing but this time they think it's just an excuse, but still they let go. For some reason you still seem to go that way even though you know it's just going to happen.
What about when you have a date, you don't want to be late on the first date, but you can't control the time or the laight so what happens , your late because of that light. Now the first time your late your date thinks nothing of it but too many time and you won't have to worry about being late for that date anymore because you won't be seeing them anymore.
Alot of times when people come to that light they stop and wait for their turn but when they see that it skips them they might wait maybe one more time but eventually they will loose patience and just run it. And you know they have to really be impatient because they know that there is a camera above the traffic lights and they still just go, even if they know the risks. If only ten maybe even fifteen people got together and either complained which might get them nowhere or requseted that they fix the lights then it would make everyone else life just that much better.
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