This action project is for my class named disease. The purpose of this project was to make a patient profile on someone, it could have been a made up person or a real person, but what we needed to accomplish was to show how the disease we chose affects the persons body and life. Not only did we have to explain the impact in words but we also had to create a life size illustration of a human body and map out the areas of the body that are affected by this disease. The part of this project I was most proud of was the illustration because I liked the concept of doing a life size piece of art and it was also fun to map out the areas and learn about what areas the disease effects. I learned so much that I would have never learned if it wasn't for this specific project. I learned about how you can contract HIV/Aids and also I learned what parts of the body HIV/Aids effects.
PATIENT PROFILE :
Patient name:
James (Fake)
Sex:
Male
Sexual orientation: Homosexual
Symptoms:
Fever ( Described as the "worst flu ever")
Swollen glands
Sore throat
Rash
Fatigue
Muscle and joint aches and pains
Headache
Community Area: Rogers park
Patient "James" experienced extreme flu-like symptoms, fatigue and muscle pains. About a week later Jason decided to come into Chicago Health Clinic for a routine check up. We did all the basic procedures and came up with the assumption that he had the flu because he had all the signs of the average flu. James came back into the clinic two weeks later and unfortunately his symptoms got worse. Now James has rashes all over his chest, Migraine headaches and swollen glands. This time he came into the clinic we decided to preform a blood test, and when the results came back it was very hard to read the results. the doctor confronted James with the news that they had found the HIV virus in his white blood cells which make up your immune system which would explain why James was so weak and had all of those symptoms.
Later that week James heard about a HIV center located in a building called Center on Halsted, so he thought, since I have this disease I might as well get educated so he decided to visit this center. Later that week James visited the Center on Halsted and asked to speak to Jill Dispenza. When he got into the interview he immediately asked Jill if he was going to die, Jill said its not the HIV that kills you its the other diseases that kill you. After she said that he asked "well how do you get those other diseases" Jill said HIV attacks your CD4 cells which make up your immune system, and that makes you more vulnerable to catching diseases or infections and since your immune system can't fight off those diseases you can get really sick." James then asked "The doctors did a test on me, how did it work?" Jill replied "we test how your body reacts to the virus not the virus itself." Later on in the conversation James asked "how did I get this disease I was perfectly fine a month ago" Jill said " the reason you were at more of a risk than others was due to where you live, Education of diseases. Another reason may be because of you sexual orientation because when two men engage in sexual activity there are a few factors that could cause it , the reason why is because when engaging in anal sex there is only one layer of skin cells, and during sex that layer could tear and fluids could be exchanged causing you to contract HIV." The interview went on for hour and after, James went home and was a little more educated on what he had.
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