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Exposing your child to books from an early age is one of the most positive early learning experiences you can give him. You can start off with picture books, pointing our items in pictures and encouraging the child to mimic your sounds or repeat tne vvords. This can begin in the first year of life.

Reading your child a regular story as part of the routine of going to bed at night stimulates his curiosity and his understanding that books give pleasure. As a toddler he can sit on your knee and look at pictures as you read simple story books. If his interest in books has been stimulated, it will only be a matter of time before he will request favourite books or stories.

You can begin taking your child to the local library from an early age. Many libraries offer special programs for young children, such as regular daytime storytelling sessions in the children’s section of the library.

As your child gets older and begins to read, he can choose his own library books, can help choose a book to buy from the local bookshop. Being exposed to suitable books and listening to stories read to him can help him get off to a good start at school. Reading to a young child also creates some very special time for a parent- Is there anything more special than a child sitting on a parent’s knee, eyes wide with anticipation, as the pages are slowly turned and the story unfolds? Having i regular daily reading time also helps the child modulate his activity levels, so that in addition to energetic, vigorous, pursuits he also learns to sit quietly and concentrate.

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The Hero: Heroes use their disease as a flag of battle. They become so involved in their war against illness that they forget or neglect the tenderness of intimacy. “No way I’ll give into this,” reported the wife with lupus. “I’ll read every minute about it, I’ll exercise, I ’11 see every expert in this world or any other.” Her husband could not understand this total involvement in the battle against the disease. “I know we have to fight this thing, but what about the rest of life? Can’t we love and laugh too, love and laugh as much as we fight and struggle?”

“Maybe you can, but I’m the one who will prove them wrong. I can handle this alone if I have to,” was the wife’s response. “I haven’t got time to play around. Every minute I waste is a minute I give to the disease. I ’11 feel like making love after I feel like I take care of this first.” She failed to understand that “taking care” of this disease depended in part on taking care of her marriage and sexuality at the same time. Heroes find themselves eventually alone, even in victory over the disease. They become victorious warriors with no one to share the victory.

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Super sex requires super love, a love that is possible only in a relationship that lasts; a nurtured love that is “raised,” much as a child is raised. We focus so much on independence that we have fogotten the value of interdependence. We have searched for the joy of sex, forgetting that there is no joy in just “doing.” The joy of marital sex is discovered through a super love, the total, voluntary merging with someone else over time. This love contains no secrets, protects the individuality of each partner while resulting in a combination that exceeds the individual capacities of both partners. It changes and grows in response to both partners. It includes a sexual interaction based on an entirely new view of orgasm and intercourse. It provides an opportunity for growth and feedback about each partner’s own behavior. It is as challenging as it is supportive. It is a love system, and we are at the same time able to experience it and be it.

Shapiro and Shapiro examine the “super healthy” relationship in their article “Weil-Being and Relationship.” They point out that is is sometimes easier to love humanity in the collective, abstract sense than in a committed, interpersonal sense. They describe the super love I am suggesting as a relationship that “one cannot take credit for, but to which one must contribute to the utmost of one’s ability, which one marvels at and is privileged to be part of.” I hope Part One of this book has helped you get ready to take part in what the Shapiros have called “a type of miracle.”

This miracle is possible not through spontaneous, romanticized, intense, “hot” love, but through considered, realistic, steady, “warm” loving, a process of being one with someone else while still being “one” for yourself. By paying attention to what can happen to desexualize a marital relationship, understanding the rules of how systems grow and flourish, bonding and rebonding with your spouse, you are able to move beyond the eight love lies at the beginning of this chapter to a true loving allowing the merger of two love maps for a new and exciting journey to super marital sex.

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When smears are taken no gonococci are found. In about half the cases, organisms such as Chlamydia or Mycoplasma may be grown on culture but in the rest, no causative organisms can be demonstrated.

This particular infection seems to generate more anxiety than does gonorrhoea.

This may be because the symptoms are slow to develop and slow to clear and may recur despite treatment.

Sometimes this infection develops during a constant sexual relationship where there has been no outside sexual contact by either partner for several months or even years.

There are usually no symptoms in women but the sexual contacts of infected men may have evidence of vaginal or cervical infection and sometimes the Chlamydia or Mycoplasma organisms can be demonstrated.

Penicillin is ineffective but the tetracycline drugs will clear it. Recurrences are common, even without further exposure.

One complication of NGU seen more in men than women is Reiter’s disease.

This involves urethritis associated with conjunctivitis or iritis, which is inflammation of the deeper tissues of the eye, and arthritis or tendon inflammation. Reiter’s disease requires the use of the anti-inflammatory drugs used for the rheumatic disorders and may take months or years to clear.

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Euthanasia, or mercy killing, is widely discussed and debated, but more with emotion than reason.

And doctors more than anyone are prone to think emotionally rather than rationally about it — because they are so intimately involved and it does make the doctor think of his own role in dealing with sickness and death.

When euthanasia is discussed it is assumed that the person carrying out the act will be the attending doctor. But is that fair?

If society decides that euthanasia is what it wants, who will be the executioner?

Most doctors would rebel about accepting that role, even if they approve of mercy killing in principle.

The doctor is trained and spends his whole life in trying to save lives and ease pain.

Doctors are not happy with death.

Unless the doctor develops a mature personality and a clear concept of his own fallibility and mortality, he may deny and reject death, both for himself and his patients.

Death becomes the enemy to be avoided at all costs. But it is the ultimate fate of us all.

It needs considerable maturity for any of us to accept death.

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This is a bacterial illness and is now rare, but the germ is still active in the community and small outbreaks occur from time to time, especially in the unimmunised.

The incubation period is around two weeks and it is common in the spring and autumn. The infection starts as a heavy cold with a marked cough, and this runs its course over a week or so by which times the temperature usually subsides. The characteristic cough associated with a whoop then develops. A paroxysm of coughing occurs and the lungs are almost emptied by short, sharp coughing.

The tongue may protrude and the child may go blue. Then the spasm in the larynx, or voice box, relaxes and the air is drawn into the lungs with a crowing sound which produces the typical “whoop”. Vomiting frequently follows this paroxysm.

The correct diagnosis is often not made until the whooping stage is reached.

In most children who have been immunised, a modified form of the disease may produce a persistent cough, even if not a severe illness.

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The head takes in the whole of the upper half of the iris except for the inclusion of heart and lungs. The important organs here include the mouth with the teeth and tonsils, nose and forehead with their accessory sinuses, the eye, brain and ear.

The areas for teeth and accessory sinuses deserve special attention since they are frequently the seat of disseminating or latent foci, which are seen as small black points. With latent foci, one sees on the sclera small tortuous venules which run to the affected area and have at their ends small bluish shining nodes. With disseminating foci the vessels go up to the iris, and with acute inflammations even on to the iris.

The areas for eyes—right iris 7′, left iris 53′—and the areas for ears, right iris about 52′, left iris 8′—are lighter in colour if there have been previous inflammatory conditions. White wisps or clouds are seen, which for example, in the case of purulent inflammation of the middle ears, extend to the outermost iris rim. These acute states are so easily established clinically that one seldom needs to make an exact iris-diagnosis for otitis media. With such disturbances also pay attention to the vascular state of the sclera. Much more frequently, however, one finds in these areas dark signs in the form of dark streaks, and this suggests an old injury which has not completely healed. If, however, these black streaks go inwards towards the iris-wreath, then there may be an optic nerve or auditory nerve weakness, and the patient complains of visual or auditory disturbances.

The brain area in both irides extends from 58′-7′, encompassing a large space, and assuming a correspondingly great importance. A much lighter colour of the brain areas suggests a congestion of blood in the brain, often accompanied by vertigo. White, or in the case of a brown stomach zone—brownish, radiating lines which run from the stomach zone to the brain area are signs for headache, whose origin lies in an over-activity of the stomach.

Single fine white lines in the brain area, the so-called nerve lines, indicate an over-activity of the head and brain nerves with neuralgic pains. Small ring-formations of whitish points in the fifth minor zone (resembling a string of small wax pearls) are signs for circulatory disturbance of the head, which the patient experiences as a feeling of numbness.

Darkening of the brain area in any case suggests a circulatory disturbance, which in such a case is attended by tiredness, depression, weakness and dizziness consequent upon the defective brain circulation —usually the result of cardiac weakness.

If lacunae are to be seen in the brain area then one may assume weakness of thought power and intelligence.

Dark signs in the area for cerebellum in the right iris indicate an hereditary disposition to epilepsy (according to Frau Madaus). If the signs appear in the left iris, it is supposed to indicate weakness of will through faulty upbringing. If radii Solaris, dark radiating furrows, are seen in the iris running from the pupil to the brain area, then there is a state of cerebral weakness. In the remainder of the iris they signify nerve weakness of the organs to which they run, more especially exhaustion of the C-N-S. When they radiate out from the iris-wreath only, exhaustion of the vegetative nervous system is indicated.

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Signs and symptoms

Vaginal discharge that occurs during puberty and is not irritating or foul-smelling is normal. Vaginal discharge that is puslike, irritating, foul-smelling, or bloody is not normal. The cause of the problem usually must be determined by your doctor.

Home care

Some of the simple causes of abnormal vaginal discharge can be prevented. Have your daughter avoid using vaginal sprays or chemicals in bath water, wear cotton rather than synthetic underpants, and wipe herself from front to back after going to the bathroom. Look for signs of threadworms or urinary tract infections. Taking sitz baths in a tub of water to which a cup of vinegar has been added may be helpful.

Precaution

Girls whose mothers received the drug diethylstilbesterol (DES) while pregnant may have a deformity of the vagina (adenosis) that causes vaginal discharge. Such girls should be examined by a gynecologist at the beginning of puberty whether or not they have vaginal discharge. Although the medical profession originally overestimated the chances of a girl whose mother took DES getting cancer, the possibility does exist. Any girl with adenosis of the vagina should be carefully monitored.

Medical treatment

Your doctor will take a detailed health history and conduct a physical (including rectal) examination. The doctor may require a culture of the discharge, and sometimes an X ray of the pelvis. Your doctor may also order urine tests.

Treatment depends upon the cause of the problem, but it may involve the use of antibiotics, worm medicine, fungicides, medicated suppositories, or hormone ointments.

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