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Symptoms of Essential Tremor in the hands

Essential Tremors – a Rare disease

I sat and watched him. The once fierce man who was now a mere fraction of the man I married. He was trembling, his dominant right hand and arm worse than the other. Initially I thought it is due to all the different medications he was on after he had his first heart attack. He thought the same and just tried to cope and still do what he could to lead a normal life. He was trying to make coffee but could not get the water inside the mugs. Warm water spilled all over the counter. The mugs flew in…

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Case courtesy of Dr Sachintha Hapugoda, Radiopaedia.org, rID: 64183

Scoliosis – the health issue that rules my world!

I was about eight years old when the school nurses came to do their annual health checkup.  They urgently wanted to speak to my Mother after my checkup. My mother just had one of her back operations and could not come to the school. I was told that my back was crooked and urgently needed to see our family physician, who would advise what to do next as I was still young. This was the first time I heard about scoliosis. I did not know it then, but scoliosis became the health issue that rules my world. My journey had…

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