Life Breath: A Little Girl's Courage, a Mother's Determination, and the Healing Power of Oxygen

Autor/in	Hollingsworth, Jan Carter
Titel	Life Breath: A Little Girl's Courage, a Mother's Determination, and the Healing Power of Oxygen
Quelle	In: Exceptional Parent, 38 (2008) 5, S.38-43 (6 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0046-9157
Schlagwörter	Mothers; Child Health; Diseases; Therapy; Outcomes of Treatment; Physicians; Attitudes; Interviews + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Mother; Mutter; Disease; Krankheit; Therapie; Physician; Doctor; Arzt; Attitude; Einstellung; Verhalten; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik
Abstract	This article presents a story of a little girl's courage, a mother's determination, and the healing power of oxygen. Grace was born on March 6, 1999 at full term, and Shannon says her pregnancy and delivery were uncomplicated. Within days of arriving home, however, Grace's condition took a serious turn. At an ophthalmologist visit when Grace was three months old, she had an eye-rolling episode. The specialist immediately recognized the cause--Grace was having a seizure and was rushed to the hospital. Thus began an arduous three-year journey as Shannon shuffled Grace to doctors nationwide in a desperate search for a diagnosis and treatment. She was 18 months old when physicians from the Mayo Clinic finally isolated Grace's diagnosis--an extremely rare and neurologically degenerative mitochondrial disorder. Grace was only the fifth case of this type of disorder worldwide. After three years of spending Grace's entire life in hospitals and the exhaustive search for treatment for Grace, Shannon heard about hyperbaric oxygen therapy. Shannon was first introduced to hyperbaric oxygen therapy, or HBOT, through her support group, Moms United for Moral Support. Hyperbaric oxygen therapy is based on the availability of oxygen to all parts of the body at the cellular level. For mitochondrial disorders, in particular, the ability of the body's cells to produce energy, and thus function properly, is dependent on the oxygen present to fuel those cells. Here, the author describes Shannon's effort to save her daughter by using HBOT. The author also presents an excerpt from interviews with two physicians that provides better understanding on the history and future of HBOT and gives insight into this subject. (ERIC).
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Update	2017/4/10