I was born with a sweet tooth and I love eating sweets. But it was not the main reason why I had a diabetes. My pancreas does not produce the needed amount of insulin for my body. I was included in the medical list of people who have a weak pancreas. My love for sweets even triggered the diabetes more. I tried eating sugar free foods but the satisfaction I get from those foods is different from the food made from real sugar. My indulgence makes the disease harder to combat.

Diabetes is a life-long disease marked by high levels of sugar in the blood. People with diabetes have high blood sugar. This is because their pancreas does not make enough insulin or their muscle, fat, and liver cells do not respond to insulin normally, or both. There are three type of diabetes, the type 1 wherein the body makes little or no insulin at all, it usually starts at childhood. The second type is the type 2 which often occur in adults wherein the pancreas does not make enough insulin to keep blood glucose levels normal, often because the body does not respond well to the insulin. The third type is the Gestational diabetes that develops during pregnancies. A sedentary lifestyle contributes to having a diabetes as well as obesity.

A distant relative of mine just recently had a leg amputation after his toe had been pinched by a nail cutter. When you have diabetes, wounds are difficult to heal due to the sugar content in the blood. A diabetic needs to inject insulin for the rest of his life to maintain the sugar balance in his body. Sugar is prohibited, that is the bitter side of having a diabetes.

My father had been complaining about stomachaches since last month. But he did not want to have a medical check up since the pain often subsides after a few minutes. But when he saw blood in his stool that when he had a check up. And he was diagnosed with a bleeding ulcer.

My father is a heavy caffeine drinker and he often misses a meal in a day due to his work. The doctor explained to us that the lining in my father’s stomach was damaged in one place and the acid and pepsin break it down as though digesting it. Hydrochloric acid and pepsin are the digestive juices that aids in breaking down of the food in the stomach. When the lining of the digestive system becomes impaired due to different factors it will be easily damaged by the acid and pepsin. My father undergone a endoscopy and x-ray examinations before he was scheduled for more examinations and a surgery.

When a person is hungry the stomach releases more acid that can weaken the lining of the stomach and when you miss a meal, the digestive juices will digest an empty stomach resulting to a damaged place in the stomach and ulcer. The thinning of the mucous coating of the stomach makes it more susceptible to the damaging effects if acid and pepsin. The most common types of surgery for ulcers are vagotomy which involve the cutting of of the vagus nerve that reduces the acid secretion through the brain. Other surgery than can be done are the antrectomy and pyloroplasty.

When my son was a year old, he can’t utter even the word Mama. When he was two he can’t even walk. When he was three, I had a hard time getting his attention and he was very impulsive. When he was four, he was out of control, he would never obey me. When he was five, I step out from my state of denial and accepted that fact my son had a Attention-Deficit / Hyperactivity Disorder.

ADHD is one of the most researched areas in child and adolescent mental health. It is a brain-based biological disorder. In general, hyperactive behavior in children makes simple instructions as sit still, pay attention for long periods of time difficult. They have a very short attention span, difficult to listen to others, difficult to attend to details, they are easily distracted, forgetful, inability to stay on task, seems to be in constant motion.

Parenting children with ADHD may be difficult and can present challenges that create stress within the family. There are many treatment that can be applied with the disorder. Antidepressant medications may also be administered for children and adolescents with ADHD to help improve attention while decreasing aggression, anxiety, and/or depression. Above all, the love and patience of the parents is strongly needed during these difficult phase in the life of the entire family. Consider children with this kind of disorder as blessings and not as a curse or punishment.