Personal Life-Learning Experiences

The first aspect of the lessons I learned after confronting a family crisis which this paper will explore includes how I learned about an illness which frequently affects infants called Respiratory Syncytial Virus. Respiratory Syncytial Virus, or RSV, is a respiratory virus which presents many of the same symptoms as a common cold and is usually contracted by children during winter months.

After my infant son, Antonio Pasquariello III, began exhibiting symptoms of a common cold, my wife and I took Antonio III to his local pediatrician. Unfortunately, the pediatrician improperly diagnos

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began to suspect that something else was wrong, that our son might have some mysterious disease which was more serious than the common cold. Then, when our baby turned ghostlike in color, started to cry constantly, refused to eat or drink anything, lost weight, and hardly whimpered or moved in his crib, my wife and I became more concerned. We began to think that Antonio was dying. And then, by the time we all arrived at the emergency center at the local hospital, Antonio was having great difficulty breathing and looked like he was very close to death. My wife and I later learned that Antonio had RSV and double pneumonia. Our sick child then spent 10 days recovering from his respiratory problems at the Women and Children's Hospital in Charleston, West Virginia. Since then, I have spoken to many doctors about rural medicine. One of the doctors I spoke to was Jonathan Wesley, M.D., who works nearby at the Welch Emergency Hospital. Dr. Wesley explained in a recent personal interview which I conducted with him that many people do not ask enough questions of their doctors after they have been told the results of a patient's initial diagnosis. Dr. Wesley recommended that potential patients should ask about both the medica
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