Interview Chronic Patients
Patients have suffered from the pain and pills taken continuously. They somehow have a hope to be a cure, but all we know some diseases will only get worse when you getting old.
Interviewing some long term illness patients who have diabetes, stroke, heart attack, and depression, etc. Try to record the story and create a publication by using an alternative publication format.
Interview with the chronic patients.
Patient: Tai Cheuk Kok
59-year-old, got a heart attack 20 years ago. That night, I felt nauseous, and then my wife saw my face turn fully purple, so she called an ambulance immediately. When I work in the street, I often see a lot of sparrows falling on the grass. I will pick them home and feed them to grow up for a month. I have already saved 120 baby sparrows. My wife is a sensitive person. Last time when our dog passed away, she cried for several years. So, I always said she may not be upset like this when I die. Haha. Let is be, and life should be happy and natural…
Patient: Hilda
I have had it since childhood. I used to get up in the middle of lessons and wander around the class looking at other peoples work and just to have a chat. I got kicked out of school cause I got bored easily and would cause trouble. It was always understood that I had ADD, since I could never sit with anything for long. As a child it was more hyperactive then as I got old I struggled more and more with just paying attention…
Patient: anonymous
I have struggled with depression since childhood. Growing and throughout adult life I found I was tired all the time and struggled to relate to others. I was always very tearful and fearful of everything. The future and life itself. It was very restrictive and relating to people was extremely hard. I just couldn’t cope with normal life and couldn’t make choices…
Patient: Bing
a 68-year-old diabetic patient. At the age of 39, just after giving birth to baby, .I feel that I have a dry mouth, a scratchy vaginal mark and a belly that can never be filled up.The doctor emphasized that I should keep 10 pills everyday and three times a day. I didn't feel any side effects before eating, I used to eat one packet of marshmallow at a time but I cannot do that anymore. Until now, I always eat noodles instead of rice, because it is healthier.
Patient: Jono
I have ADD (Attention Deficit Disorder). I have had it since childhood. I used to get up in the middle of lessons and wander around the class looking at other peoples work and just to have a chat. I got kicked out of school cause I got bored easily and would cause trouble. It was always understood that I had ADD, since I could never sit with anything for long.
Patient: Guillaumeok
I am 36 years old. I discovered I have attention disorder when I was 32. I had high level frustration and thought so many things. During the psychologist therapy, I did some reading test, three multiple choices every question. I find I have attention disorder. I feel excited in a good way because it is my first time to understand my brain, my life and myself.I feel happy as I can put a name on my mood which I think that it is normal.
Patients have suffered from the pain and pills taken continuously. They somehow have a hope to be cure, but all we know some diseases will only get worse when you getting old. After the interview, we can further understand how the patient suffer daily. A disease that persists for a long time. A chronic disease is one lasting 3 months or more, by the definition of the U.S. National Center for Health Statistics. Chronic diseases generally cannot be prevented by vaccines or cured by medication, nor do they just disappear. Eighty-eight percent of Americans over 65 years of age have at least one chronic health condition (as of 1998). Health damaging behaviors - particularly tobacco use, lack of physical activity, and poor eating habits - are major contributors to the leading chronic diseases.