Archive for the ‘hemophilia’ Category
December 10, 2009
If blood accumulates in joints or internal organs…it weakens you, or damage your bones, organs. Bleeding must be stopped as soon as possible.
Assim que sentir dor ou que machucar, avisa teus pais ou professora…assim você irá melhorar rapidamente.
Não tenha medo de conversar…nunca!
Tags:children with hemophilia, communication, treatment
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December 3, 2009
So, gathering and listening to their concerns, experiences and doubts is fundamental. Orientation for adecuate, interesting careers and jobs has been one of our prevalent goals the last 2 years at our hemophilia Center of Hospital das Clinicas. Just to inform you: the most common jobs are 1) the family ones (father and son, brothers together) where the young man with hemophilia handles the clients/customers aspect, the administrative or and the comercial part.
2) Technology (technicians in computers, web design, etc -i say etc because I am ignorant in these matters
3) Nurse and medical careers
4) Music business (musicians, band, singing , entertainment)
Uma das grandes preocupações do nosso Centro de Hemofilia nas Clinicas, é orientar e acompanhar de perto a transição para a vida do primeiro trabalho, portanto a atenção começa nos anos anteriores, ou seja no colegial.
O grande receio dos meninos é não saber qual seria o melhor trabalho para eles, e depois como conseguir um emprego!
So para mencionar e dar algumas ideias dos tipos mais comuns de trabalho entre nossos adultos com hemofilia:
1) Trabalhos em empresas familiares: pais com filhos, ou entre irmãos : onde no caso o portador da hemofilia se encarrega da parte de atendimento ao cliente, fecha negócios, toma conta da parte contável, visita (se tem carro e está em boas condições físicas) clientes novos , etc
2) Informática (tudo o relacionado com as chamadas novas tecnologias: computação, web design, desenho industrial, etc)
3) Arte e música (músicos, bandas, entretenimentos)
4) Area administrativa e economia
5) Enfermagem e áreas relacionadas como laboratoriais por exemplo e ou farmaceuticas.
Este tema será abordado mais amplamente nos próximos posts (entrevistas, curriculum, cursos etc)
Tags:FMUSP, Hemocentro de Sao paulo, HEMOPHILIA CENTER HOSPITAL DAS CLINICAS, JOB, Trabalho
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November 24, 2009
I would like to indicate the excellent monograph of RIVA MILLER about GENETIC COUSELLING, written for the WFH.toh-25_english_genetic_counselling ! click and read it enjoying a intelligent and clear text.
X like X chromosome:
“X is the sex chromosome found twice in normal females = XX and once, along with a Y chromosome, in normal males = XY.”
The X chromosome carries hundreds of genes (informations about how you are going to be). Few, if any, of them have anything to do with sex.
The inheritance of genes on the X follows special rules because males have only a single X chromosome, and genes on the X are expressed in males.
Genes inherited in this manner are said to be sex-linked or, more precisely, X-linked. An example is Hemophilia A and hemophilia B.
A boy with hemophilia is Xh Y (the h is the hemophilia gene) and the carrier of hemophilia which is a woman will be XhX.
Sometimes both X in a woman can have the gene of hemophilia…this is very rare and is due to A MUTATION in the other X chromosome or in both. We have cases as I wrote in an old post, of women with hemophilia.
X chromosome
X COMO CROMOSSOMO X : “cromo = cor e somo/a= corpo…..O X é o cromossomo sexual que se encontra duas vezes no caso da mulher (XX) e uma vez só, junto ao Y no caso de um homen (XY).
Estes cromossomos carregan informações sobre muitas características suas…como se vai ou não ficar careca ou se vai ter algumas disfunções como por exemplo a Hemofilia A e a Hemofilia B.
São características ligadas ao X.
Uma mulher portadora da hemofilia terá a hemofilia ligada à um dos X (exemplo XhX onde o h é a hemofilia).
Um homem que tem hemofilia será XhY. No caso do homem a hemofilia se expressa porque o X é que está sozinho!
Algumas mulheres (muito muito raro!) são consideradas hemofílicas porque além de ser portadora , o outro X delas sofre uma mutação genética e não funciona direito em relação a produção do fator da coagulação 8 ou 9.
Lembrem que: quem tem hemofilia nasce com a informação (gen da hemofilia) que o fígado não poderá produzir fator 8 ou 9 o suficiente ou produz o fator mas ele não funciona! fazendo que a coagulação seja muito muito lenta

Tags:genetic counselling in hemophilia
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November 19, 2009
Click on the pictures to see them better! Cliquem nas fotos e aparecerão maiores…:) dad, this is for you, I honor your teaching along the years. Today 19/11/09: 6 months since you died.
Para você, pai, honrando o que você sempre quis…que aprendesse o Arabe.
Hoje faz 6 meses que você morreu. I love you.

Tags:HEMOACTION in Arabic
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November 8, 2009
Well now he is ready for his sessions of physiotherapy….it hurts but he is willing to excercise, to get stronger…and walk soon. I like you so much Adrion.
And your parents are with you too…it is a new phase.
Tags:physiotherapy
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November 6, 2009
Se tivesse que escolher uma cor para a RAIVA colocaría o VERMELHO.
Más , quem incorpora legal o momento PICO quando sentimos raiva e ira ,é o Hulk!
Eu assistía fascinada o seriado nos anos 70/80 e achava o máximo quando o dr. Bruce tentava se controlar para não machucar alguém ou destruir alguma coisa…más não dava!!!
a raiva dele também era sempre COM RAZÂO!!! al final, ele era uma vítima, um fugitivo, um não amado e um defensor público!
No filme recente 2008? achei interessante rever para analisar mais a questão da RAIVA: perceberam que, quanto mais o Dr Bruce “quer tirar dele mesmo o hulk, esse lado monstruoso” menos ele se da bem?? e cada vez que ele se aproxima do trabalho de se aceitar com este problema, quanto MAIS ele escuta a namorada, olha para ela, ele se humaniza?? ou seja , temos que aceitar nossas dificuldades para poder transforma-las, não adianta projetar nos outros a causa de nossa raiva, não adianta dizer eu vou TIRAR isto de mim! volta contra nos
R LIKE RAGE
I used to love the hulk episodes when I was a kid…the amazing thing about him was the transformation: i understood him so well! But I would have chosen another color for rage: RED not green! whatever…the man/monster was a hero and the conflict between the beast and human being was obvious. Nowadays; I look at the movie and my vision is still sympathizing with him, BUT I ALSO LEARNED THAT if we want like Dr Bruce to ” take it out of me” refering to the HULK side, we cannot! the more we deny or detest our destructive or rageous aspects, the more they control us.! Rage is a consequence of anger…and we get angry…and sometimes it is very well to get angry. We can´t be like soft as a banana always.! but yes, we must learn to ADMINISTRATE our rage, and not destroy everything. And this task requires a lot of ENERGY, but at the end we feel much better when we can put the person in her place without calling him names, or smashing something…
Tags:feelings, hemophilia, RAGE, teens at the ambulatory of hemophilia
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October 30, 2009
“CUT the HEAD off!” orders always the Queen when anyone frustrates her. A lot of people solve their problems by cutting off other people from their lives…by “cutting” the head off, they cut the dialogue, the possibility of generosity by exposing their ideas, respect and of being more gentle. Even if we cannot get to a pleasant solution sometimes; the conversation humanizes us. Let avoid being like the queen although her solution is radical and effortless.
“CORTE A CABEÇA” ordena a Rainha de Copas cada vez que alguém a frustra.
Simbolicamente, muitas pessoas fazem como a Rainha da história quando são confrontadas, ou percebem que suas vidas vão se complicar com muitas conversações. Não querem nem saber se a pessoa que está na frente está certa ou não, o que elas têm a dizer. CORTA!
Não fazer como a Rainha , sería sim conversar, resolver os problemas que surgem, aceitar o máximo possível as diferenças, ser generoso.
Tags:diálogo, RAGE, red fotography and art
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October 20, 2009
the rest of it is at VOLUNTEER NEWS at www.wfh.org
BE A VOLUNTEER, try the experience
SEJA UM VOLUNTARIO, EXPERIMENTE!:)
Tags:Voluntária, VOLUNTEER
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October 15, 2009
Our blood is always flowing and clotting, and in this way repairing little or bigger bleedings in our body.
A constant balance is required.
Like in our life, we are always “flowing” or trying to…like on a dancefloor, or when ideas come and flow over a screen or a piece of paper…
and we are “clotting” too when we give form to a project, when we finally decide to “do” something….
It´s a metaphor that i like to use in my life….
When to flow and when to clot….that is A question !
ps: this drawing is made by Cloves a teenager I met at the hospital and was part of a group therapy for 7 years with my coordination.
He was 14 when he did it.
After studying Blood characteristics and clotting he draw what represented to him the opposites in blood.
Tags:symbolism; Junguian Psychology
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October 4, 2009
I am a consultant volunteer for the WFH and this is on the left Assad Affar who is Director for all the projects for Middle East and Africa, I have travelled to Egypt and Jordan with his coaching. And with him is Dr El Kiaby
hematologist, a volunteer as well at the Wfh.
We discussed at the Global Forum what would be the plans for next year in the psychosocial area for Egypt, Syria maybe and Jordan.
my friend Gordon Clark on his new vehicle, he is with the WFH since for ever and an active member of the board.

Angela Forsight, is physiotherapist and a volunteer at the Wfh like me. She was in the team of Novo Nordisk proposal to discuss e analize new approaches for many countries in treatment for hemophiliacs. Although most people who had hemophilia gor inhibitors too, the focus was to imagine and criate for all the population with hemophilia. Next to me was Matt who is an active member of the hemophiliac community and participates in workshops and other activities I’ll ask him to tell me.
And here the big new team!!! a mix of different profissionals from the hemophilia area, pharmaceutical industry of Novo Nordisk and fondation Paul, organizers of the event from The Wright PerspectiveRobin and Hellen(on the left), and members of the hemophiliac representatives Kerry in red
, and 4 gentlemen named by Matt, Andrea(extreme right side), Sid (with hat) and Werner(smiling in the back behind my friend and mignonne collegue Eliane .
And an interesting fellow who works a lot in criating program of treatment with people with diabetes next Kery in red is Soren)
I’ll have to check for more names…BUT THAT EVENING WAS just sweet and gentle.
Tags:Novo Nordisk, World Federation of hemophilia
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September 30, 2009

Geovana, 5 years old drew me (the one at the right
, the secretary of our center Val and the 3rd one is Lais the voluntary that plays with them. Thank you for drawing so cutely!!
I met Lucimara, in 2000, she was in her early twenties, single mother with a one year-old boy : Guilherme! this little one in the picture…he is now almost 9 and has going through several head surgery because of internal bleedings when baby.Today, he is a smart kid, goes to school, plays with friends and has a sister Giovana, 5. Lucimara is a woman that I admire a lot. She grew up, learned everything she could about hemophilia, she did the course with our nurse Eliane to learn how to infuse factor to her son, she changed job, got a better one, and she is an independant woman.
I remember the first time she was in my little office at the Center and she was always so scared of any normal movement of her little boy, afraid of everything….well, look at her face now
Conhecí Lucimara em 2000, quando ela veio fazer a sua primeira consulta para Guilherme o filhinho Guilherme, na época com um ano de idade. Hoje , como podem ver na foto ele é um fofo, esperto, leva a vida de qualquer criança de 8 anos! Mas se vocês souberam pelo que ele passou nos primeiros anos de vida: 5 cirurgias na cabeça , veia com acesso difícil teve que colocar durante 2 anos e meio um catéter e tudo isso com a mãe solteira, lutando por um trabalho mais digno, lutando por sua independência e por uma vida digna. Giovana nasceu ha 5 anos e assim a familia cresceu.
Lembro da Lucimara na sua primeira visita, pulava da cadeira de mêdo cada vez que o Guilherme fazia um movimento !
olhem para a cara dela agora….!:) bonita e serena … THIS DRAWING IS FROM TODAY at age 9! his flying motocycle and sportive car going home!!!
Tags:Familia, family, MOTHER, siblings hemophilia
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