Healthcare - The Red String

Healthcare

Reports on my own Health and other thoughts around Healthcare

Oops! I burnt my leg

Oops! I burnt my leg

And I have to keep the wound exposed in order to heal well. All because I wanted an extra cup of tea.

5 TED Talks to Help You Love Yourself

5 TED Talks to Help You Love Yourself

In my last post about What I Learnt From My First Year in Business Development, I talked about how I was struck by an initial feeling of "being lost" once I had settled back into Nigeria last year - and how my biggest lesson after it all, was about Purpose.

Reinforcement Learning

Reinforcement Learning

In computer science, the term reinforcement learning refers to a sub-study of Artificial Intelligence called machine learning. The subject itself is actually quite broad and deep, and propels you quickly into the world of probabilities, Markov Decision Processes, weights, and rewards. Thus it is certainly not a subject I intend

Day 100

Now let's talk about another primarily Black problem, and the benefits of delayed gratification. For some months now, a friend of mine has been here in the U.S, undergoing treatment to cure his sickle-cell aneamia, and I have been wanting to tell you all about it for so long.

Enabling The Disabled

Enabling The Disabled

For the 2nd time this year, I participated in the REACH for college program run by the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. During the program, there were a number of recurring topics that came up in discussion. One in particular, the idea that disabled people need help, caught my attention when

A Sickler's Advice

A Sickler's Advice

Living with Sickle Cell Anaemia is like being the parent of a very temperamental baby. This baby cries when she's hot, when she's cold, when she's tired, and sometimes she cries for no perceivable reason at all! * Damola Mabogunje This month, I had the opportunity to be a volunteer mentor

Transient Ischemic Attack

Transient Ischemic Attack

As it turned out, I only had the TIA in Inertia (Inert sha - For those who don't get the lame joke). A T.I.A also known as the "warning stroke", is essentially a stroke that resolves itself. As such, I was not in any immediate danger but as

24hrs Inert Sha

24hrs Inert Sha

Of those 2 days, I spent the first 24-hours under something called "Stroke Protocol". Stroke Protocol for those as unfamiliar with the term as I was, is essentially the set of rules for doctors and nurses that defines what to do if a patient may have just had a stroke.

Say What?

At 2AM on the 2nd day of December in 2010, I went deaf in my left ear. This deafness lasted for about an hour and a half and came coupled with symptoms of light-headedness, loss of balance, and later in the day, numbness on my entire left-side. My brother and