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Student creates
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By Paul Neale
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Emily Downward doesn’t believe in telling
patients to take two aspirin and call her in the
morning.
Downward, a community health education
major, developed a patient education program
to pick up where she believes doctors some
times leave off.
She interned this semester at Health for All,
Inc., a Bryan clinic that provides free medical
care and medicine to children and adults who
do not have any insurance.
“A lot of times, the doctors just say you have
high blood pressure, you’ve got to take this
medication every day for the rest of your life,
and they (doctors) never tell them what it is,”
Downward said. “I give them a definition and
tell them they have to watch their diet, exercise,
and take their medication; and we talk about
each of those things.”
Health for All executive director Cindy
Patrick said she had been looking for a way to
include more interaction with patients.
“Most of the people she talks to say that no
one’s ever talked to them before about their
condition,” Patrick said.
Health for All has designated this week to
turn its attention toward the children of the
Brazos Valley who v e free clinic. The
Children’s Miracle Network has given money
and area clinics have donated dental hygiene
products and bars of soap.
Downward has planned games, such as pin
the tail on the cow and a concentration game
involving the food groups, to educate the kids
about dental care, exercise, nutrition and hy
giene.
“With children, you have to educate them
while doing something fun,” said Downward,
who is heading the effort.
She said many of the health problems she
comes in contact with can be minimized by ed
ucation.
"It’s really simple stuff like hygiene. Basic
information isn’t getting out to people who
need it,” she said. "I just want to help those
people and make the information available to
them where they can understand it.”
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causes for visits to the clinic and collected edu
cational pamphlets about the various problems.
She then aesigned a counseling program for
each of the seven ailments to deal with patients
on an individual basis.
Downward charted the progress of meet
ings, noting the frequency and reason of pa
tients’ visits.
Both Downward and Patrick said they have
witnessed a positive impact left by the patient
education program.
“I talked to them about how they’ve changed
their diet,” Downward said. “All of my patients
so far have lost weight. It’s really encouraging.”
And Patrick said some patients come to the
clinic specifically for counseling.
Downward has evaluated her patient educa
tion program since its implementation. She
said the patients would have liked to spend
more time one-on-one, and some planned to
bring health-related questions with them on fu
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ward said. “It’s to take what you have
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consider how many people want
a baby so bad and are financially
and emotionally ready,” she said.
“These are people who have ac
tively chosen parenthood and are.
prepared to suffer for it.”
Jerri has undergone at least
five different fertility treatments.
Some, she said, alter your hor
mones and make your moods
swing violently while others give
you severe hot flashes.
Each failed effort is a phenom
enal disappointment.
“Every time it is like a death,
like actually losing a child,” she
said. “I grieve a death every
month.”
After many such disappoint
ments, Jerri found herself with a
huge amount of anger and sad
ness and no outlet.
“I prayed to God one night to
help me find a place for this
anger,” she said. The next day I
just began drawing cartoons of
my experiences.”
Jerri has started a cartoon book
playing on the frustrations and
tribulations of infertile couples.
Her support group has given
her beginning drawings rave re
sults.
“My friends love them,” she
said. “They can relate to so many
of the situations.”
“There are so many things
people who are not infertile do
not understand,” she said.
“Nothing is private anymore, es
pecially not your sex life.”
Jerri said once people know
you are unable to get pregnant,
suddenly everyone’s a doctor.
“People tell me it’s all in my
head, ‘just relax,’ they say, ‘if you
stop worrying you’ll get preg
nant,”’ she said. “Or stand on
your head after you and your
husband have sex.’”
Comments like these, Jerri
said, become tiresome and frus
trating.
“Everyone thinks the ‘trying’
is the fun part. But it’s not fun
having sex on demand. It can
make your mate feel like a trained
seal,” she said.
But Jerri’s frustration has be
come inspiration and fueled her
creative energy into making her
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keep her frustration in check.
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