Knowledge, Beliefs, and Health: Online, Analytical Reflection # 2
Patient 1: People’s Experiences > Later life> Sleep problem in later life> People’s profiles> Women aged 65-74> Juliet- Interview 07
Patient 2: Young People’s Experience> Epilepsy> People’s profiles> Men 22-25> Will-Interview 26
Juliet believes that a good night sleep is when she doesn’t wake up from start to end, and wakes up feeling refreshed. After being diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis her sleep was interrupted at least 1-2 times but sometimes as often as 3-4 times a night. As Juliet has gone older she has more frequent interruption. She chalks up her problem as obvious for old age. Julia fondly remembers that she never had a problem with sleeping even when her kids were little.
Instead of fighting sleep interruption she has
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She tries to fulfill the appointments she already made but has canceled occasionally.
Will was a regular kid at school playing rugby and enjoying it a lot. He was interested in designs of things until he was diagnosed with Epilepsy. He feels since then a lot has changed. His life circles around the medicine that he takes. And he is always worried about the relapse of epilepsy if he forgets to take his medicine. He is grateful that medicine has kept everything normal but having to carry around his medicine all the time on person and on his mind, is very taxing. Will don’t like being treated differently and is frustrated at his dad for keeping tab on his medicine.
He feels that he has been treated as kid all the time with how everyone around him is extra careful. He remembers when he had bouts of seizures and was put in children ward, it was excruciating experience. Will even have to see pediatric neurologist and remembers room with murals of Micky Mouse. Everything was childlike until he went in to see the doctor in the waiting