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Parkinson’sDisease;

The Shaking Palsy

Dr. RM, MD

Waking up in the morning, not being able to talk. If that happens to you, then that means you must be sick. Well there is one type of disease that does that to you, and that disease is called Parkinson’s disease. I’m pretty sure you hate being sick. Having this disease, you SHOULD hate being sick. Someone who has this disease will really wish they were dead.

Job of a Neurologist

I’m a neurologist (new-rol-le-gest). A neurologist is a doctor who specializes in the nervous system. A neurologist usually treats diseases that are found in the spinal cord or brain or nerves, I specialize in this one disease called Parkinson’s disease.

Nervous System

There are two parts of the nervous system. There is the PNS, which is the peripheral (pe-re-phe-ral) nervous system, and there is CNS, which stands for the central nervous system. The CNS consists of three parts: The brain, the spinal cord and the nerves. In the brain, there are three parts called the cerebrum, the cerebellum and the brainstem. The cerebrum is what controls your senses and your thinking. You cerebellum takes care of your movement and balance. And last of all your brainstem takes care of your involuntary (in-vo-lun-tery) actions such as your heart beat, breathing and digestion. The job of the spinal cord is to send the messages from the brain to the body and back, so basically the spinal cord is kind of like a messenger. In the PNS there are sensory nerve cells and motor nerve cells. SNC are your senses such as touch, hear, smell, taste and see. And MNC are what make your senses work.

Did you know that James Parkinson’s was the first to describe the Parkinson’s disease condition in his work, “An Essay on the Shaking Palsy?”

Symptoms

You can easily tell you have Parkinson’s (Par-ken-sons) disease, because you start shaking and your muscles become rigid. Your balance, coordination, and speed will decrease. Once you have Parkinson’s disease, you may also acquire dementia (Di-men-tia). Dementia is a mental condition that affects the brain so basically you forget almost everything you used to know and you will probably end up acting like a baby.

You may also experience swallowing difficulties and speaking problems. You may not like having Parkinson’s disease because you can’t really do anything anymore. You become dependent on other people.

Affecting the system

Parkinson’s disease is a progressive disease of the central nervous system. If a family member has Parkinson’s disease, he/she may pass it on. This disease is non-stop. When you get this disease, nerve cells in parts of the brain responsible for controlling body movements, will spread a chemical named dopamine. Dopamine is a neurotransmitter that is made by the brains organisms. Dopamine is found in the CNS and it’s also linked with the brains complex systems. Dopamine is critical to the way the brain controls our movements. If you don’t have enough, you can’t move: If you have too much, uncontrollable movements. It will also increase pulse and blood pressure. In Parkinson’s disease, the dopamine transmitting neurons die. The brains of people with Parkinson’s disease have almost no dopamine. They give the adult called L-DOPA that can be converted in the brain to dopamine. The neurotransmitters are what affect the system. But also it’s the medications. If you take a depressant, it will slow your system down. Which means the system won’t work as fast. In Parkinson’s disease some patients have to take stronger medications.

People whom get this Disease

Some researchers say that Parkinson’s disease is a genetic, but most people don’t know how you get it. The word genetic (Ge-ne-tic) means that it’s inherited from birth like from a parent. The cause could also be because of environmental pollutants. Environ-mental (En-vi-ro-mental) pollutants mean you can get it from pollutant. It is more usual for middle-aged and old people to get Parkinson’s disease, but it can also spread to young adults. Parkinson’s disease is a very common disease in fact it occurs all over the world! It is more likely for men to get it more than women, but still women get it too.

Did you know that Jean-Martin changed “Shaking Palsy” to “Parkinson’s disease?”

The Treatment

You can treat Parkinson’s disease, but you cannot cure it. You have to take medications such as Artane and Derynl. Artane (Ar-taane) can greatly reduce the shaking in your hand. Deprynl (Dep-re-nel) is supposed to slowdown the progression of the disease. Some Parkinson’s patients do not respond well to drug treatment, so they have to take stronger medication that may affect other systems.

Did you know that Michael J. Fox was the first actor to get Parkinson’s disease?

So now that you know about Parkinson’s disease, you can tell that you have it. You should know how to treat it and you should know how you get it and what this disease does to you. Ok well not all people die with this disease but some do! You should also know that you would not like to have this disease and I think you know why….

Bibliography:

Silverstein, Alvin, Virginia B. Silverstein, and Laura Silverstein. Nunn. Parkinson's Disease. Berkeley Heights, NJ: Enslow Pub., 2002.

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I had just come back from recess. As soon as I bring my lunch and sit down, I hear a voice saying “RM,”it was my teacher “Yes?” I answer. “Please take your lunch and go to Mrs. Branch’s office!”

I thought I was in trouble. “What could I have possibly done?” I said to myself. I couldn’t say a word. I took my stuff and went down. It was the first time I’ve ever done this. So when I got there, I asked Miss Mariane (the secretary) were the principal’s office is. “Right over there!” she says. “Thank you!” I reply with fear. I step inside with shock! I look around, I think to myself “I think I’m in the wrong place, why is this room so pretty?” All of the sudden, someone pops up and greets me with delight. “Hello RM!” she says with a voice like an angel! “Hello!” I answer, but this time, I wasn’t scared, I was confused. I couldn’t understand how come I’m not in trouble? Why did she tell me to come here? Is it because of my pretty red hair? So I decided to ask her. When she heard what I said, she turned around and looked at me and chuckled. “Oh little one,” “You’re not in trouble!” “It looks like your teacher didn’t explain it quite well!” “Huh?” I say “What was she talking about?” I think to myself. She continued and said “You’re here to have lunch with me and some other kids from different grade levels!” She said with a sweet smile on her face. “Oh!” I finally understand. “All this time I thought I was in trouble, when in fact I was sent here to eat my lunch and meet some students!” We both laughed then sat down to eat. Before we left, she got out a box. “What was in that box?” I wondered. She opened it up, and deep down there were ….COOKIES!!! Chocolate chip cookies! She gave each of us a tissue and said, “Pretend you are in a tea party, you should have good manners, so if you want a cookie, I will give you one, but you have to say thank you after I give you one!” So we did what she told us and those were the best cookies ever!

Now I know why my teacher sent me here, to have lunch and communicate with other students! And I think I was also sent here to meet the principal and get to know her better! This day was the best day ever!

When I was passing the gates of our school, I saw the principal and greeted her, and then I kept on walking.
While I was walking, I noticed that there was 15.00L.L. on the floor. I picked it up and looked at it. I wanted to take it but I didn’t because I am not a criminal, so instead I decided to ask the principal if it was hers or if she knew anybody who dropped them. I ran up to her as quick as possible and I told her “Ms. Branch,” “Is this your money?” I pulled out the 15.00 L.L. out of my pocket and showed them to her. “I found these over there on the floor!” I said. She looked at me in shock and said, “Oh my,” “That money must have fallen out of somebody’s wallet!” She took the money and told me, “Oh RM,” “What you did was very nice!” “Thank you for being honest and not taking that money!” “You’re welcome!” I said. I was proud of myself and for what I did.

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It’s always good to listen to someone, why you may ask? Well if you do that means you have good listening skills and good listening skills lead to…..

Making you smarter
The first reason why listening is important in life is because if you listen to someone, you learn something, and learning makes you smarter! Let’s say your teacher is explaining something that is going to be on a test, you should listen or you’re going to get a bad grade! Or if your friends telling you a riddle, if you listen carefully, you might hear that exact same riddle again and you’ll know how to solve it because you listened to what your friend told you.

Helps you in life
The second reason why listening is important is because, what if you were watching a cooking show on T.V. and the show was teaching you how to bake a cake. Let’s say the next day your mom asks you to bake the same exact cake you saw on T.V the other day, if you remember all the steps he showed you, and then you will bake your mom one of the best cakes in the world! Now I’m not only saying this can only happen by watching a cooking show this can happen in anything!

Makes life easier
the last reason why I think and know that listening skills are important in life is because it makes life way easier than ever! How? You’re probably wondering right now. Well for example if your teacher is explaining a math problem and all of the sudden, when you grew up, you became a math teacher, if you listened to what the teacher said, than your life would be easier because you would know everything and it would be a piece of cake teaching.

I hope the next time anybody is talking to you, you should listen. If you don’t, than I don’t think life is going to be easy, and if you do…well you should know the answer to that by now!

Students observed the dissection of the heart and lungs of a sheep, and dissected a sheep heart, as part of the science unit on the circulatory/cardiovascular system. Ms. Salem conducted the dissection.

You may think it’s disgusting, but I thought it was really cool! Some time ago, my teacher thought that it was time to dissect a heart since we had finished studying about the circulatory system. Mrs. Salem, a fifth grade teacher, came to our class and brought in the heart and lungs of a sheep, and she demonstrated how to dissect them!

At first I thought the dissection was really gross, but when I actually waited and saw the rest, it was the coolest thing I had ever seen in my whole life! Every time she opened up something like the heart or the lungs, she would pass it around, and we got to touch it! Like when she opened the heart, we saw what was inside and we saw some veins, and when she opened up the lungs, we saw the vessels and we got to touch them, they were really hard! During the dissection of the lungs, Mrs. Salem showed us how our lungs work. So she got the lungs and blew through the trachea, and suddenly, the lungs inflated! She tried it another time, she blew, and this time they inflated even more!!! Everybody started saying “wow!”and “cool!” I thought that was the best part, but in came the afternoon, when we got back from recess, and there were more hearts on the table! Miss Noshie placed us each in groups of four, and each group got one heart, some gloves, and scissors too because this time, we were going to do the dissection.

What I really hated was when we dissected in groups, because we actually got to do the dissecting, and we saw all the parts, we even had to cut some veins and codettas! What I thought was really disgusting, was when Miss Noshie got the scissors and took out all the de-oxygenated blood. It looked like black jello, even worse, black slime! It was so sticky and disgusting, but still I thought it was kind of cool. The last thing I thought was really something not cool was the smell. I really thought that the heart smelled horridness and really stinky, especially the blood!

I really thought the dissection was cool; I can’t wait to dissect the brain! I think it would be way cooler since its one of the most important organ in our body. But I don’t want to be a doctor because I have to do dissect things that I really don’t want to see!

I am from eggs and toast in the morning, from the hollering of my mother telling us to get ready for school, from 2 mean brothers wanting me to do all the work who beat me up all day, and still they never get enough. I am from my grandmother’s cooking, from the cracks in the walls of her kitchen; I am from waking up to the sound of cars and buses and from sleeping at my grandma’s house that lives in the city, and from a grandfather who says, “Don’t touch this” and “don’t touch that,” from the “I don’t want to!” and the “you do it!” I am from a teacher that only listens to classical music, from saying it makes us smarter. I am from a classroom filled with books from A to Z, from friends who do anything to keep me happy and from flowers in my garden, red to yellow and blue and purple. I am from baths in cold water from living in the mountains, from listening to my dad talking about the news. I am from a school that says “Honesty is the best policy,” from a town, from buses to cars and from a country that likes to keep things clean. I am from a village from where people keep quiet, from a family of love and care. I am from scholastics, from ordering books once in a year, from “if she jumped out of a building you would to?”