Acknowledgments

Assalamualaikum and hello, peeps!

First of all, I would like to introduce myself. The name given is Nur Sabrina binti Suhaimi. I am from DEC 5A and I am currently majoring in English Communication.

A big of applause to my lecturer who also my advisor, Madam Hawinda binti Karmon for guided and helped me a lot in this blog process. I have been through a lot of hardships in order to complete this task. Googling and do some reading day and night to provide the best information on rare diseases.

It is such a waste if I wrote the articles without any objectives. Actually, the reasons I chose this kind of theme because I love medic. I love to get to know new disease or rare disease that we are never knew! Somehow, it helps me to realize that nothing is impossible if God’s wills.

So, here are my objectives:

•          To reveal several rare diseases around the world
•          To get know the history of the diseases, the treatments that they used and the symptoms of the diseases
•          To gain some medical knowledge
•          To help patients who are related to the diseases
•          To show support and solidarity towards the patients

I would be happy if the information here really helps you guys especially in gaining some information about the diseases and also towards the patients who have the disease.

Enjoy your reading and don’t forget to drop any comment to show your support and to help me improve the blog!

Thanks!

FAMOUS CASE: PROSOPAGNOSIA

OLIVER SACKS

He was a British neurologist, psychiatry and a writer. Do you know him? 

He is Oliver Sacks who also known as the best author in writing his own patients' case studies. In 2010, he revealed that he was suffered from face blindness. And the disease was noticed by himself during his middle age. Then, during his meeting with his own older brother in Australia whom he hadn't seen much for more than 3 decades, he found out that his brother also had the same difficulties. 

Even though he categorize his disease as moderate, but still, he barely to recognize his own personal assistant of six years and his psychiatrist whom he had been seeing twice in a week. Unfortunately, this wonderful man had died on 30 August 2015 at age of 82. 

You may read his masterpieces at The New York Times 

CHUCK CLOSE

He is not a psychiatrist or neurologist. But, he is an artist! 

Known as Chuck Close, he is such wonderful painter even though actually he suffers a spinal artery collapse that left him a quadriplegic. He was born with prosopagnosia. But, how he can even paint?

According to his explanation, he able to recognize some people if they were static or 'flattened out' images (potraits), but if they move their head even for inch, then it become a new face that he never known before! 

For your information, he still do paint since it was the only way for him to recognize people arounds him.