Today's Class- Health Conditions-Do You Always Feel Well? Do You Sometimes Feel Ill?

When we feel well, we are healthy (hélzi).

Sometimes we don’t feel well. We may be:

not well (nat uél) mal

sick (sik) enfermo

ill (íl) enfermo

hurt (hert) herido

dizzy (dísi) mareado

nauseous (nóshes) tiene nausia

bleeding (blíding) sangrando

infected (infécted) infectado

I don’t feel so well. I am sick.

What is the matter?

I think I have a cold.

Um...

I have a headache, a runny nose and maybe fever.

Or we might have:

A cold- resfrío

Flu (flú) gripe

Fever (fíver) fiebre

Bronchitis (bronkáitis)

Pneumonia (eumónia)

Headache (hédeik) dolor de cabeza

Toothache (túzeik) dolor de muelas

Earache (ííreik) dolor de oídos

Heartache (hárteik) dolor de corazón

Stomachache (stómaeik) dolor del estómago

How are you?

I’m sore all over.

Too much exercise?

maybe.

Sore eyes (sór áis) dolor de ojos

Sore lips (sór lips) dolor de labios

Sore throat (sór zrout) dolor de garganta

Sore muscles (sór másels) dolor de músculos

Sore legs (sór legs) dolor de piernas

Sore feet (sór fíít) dolor de pies

Sore hands (sór hénds) dolor de manos

Broken bones (brouken bouns) huesos quebrados

Pain (péin), ache (éik), sore (sor) - dolor

Burn (bern) arda

Itch (ich) pica

Broken (brouken) quebrado

Infection (infécshen) infeccion

Rash (rásh)

Food poisoning (fúd poidening)

Is Nora all right?

Well, she got a burn.

Is it serious?

It hurts, but it is only a first degree burn so it will heal soon.

Some pains are

Dull (dal) flojo

Sharp (sharp) afilado

Pulsating (pálseiting) pulsando

Frequent (fríkuent) frecuente

Constant (kónstent) constante

Severe (sevír) severo

Penetrating (penetréiting) fuerte

Comes and goes (kams en gous) viene y va

Doctor, I have a stomachache

What kind of pain do you feel in your stomach?

I don’t know how to explain it.

Is it sharp or dull?

It is sharp.

Is it constant or does it come and go?

It comes and goes.

We Might have a Sickness; Illness; Disease; Ailment (éilment) – enfermedad

a disease may be serious but there is always hope for recovery

Arthritis (aztáitis) atritis

Cancer (kénser) cancer

Concussion (konkáshen)

Tuberculosis/TB (tuberculosis)

Cardiac arrest (cardiac arrest) parro de corazón

Heart disease (hart disis) enfermedad de corazón

Lung disease (lang disis) enfermedad de los pulmones

Kidney disease (kídni disis) enfermedad de los riñones

Malaria (malaria) malaria

SAR

HIV

You look terrible. What’s the matter?

My doctor said I have skin cancer.

Don’t worry!

Really?

Yes. It is curable 98% of the time.

Mental Illnesses can be controlled by medication and therapy:

Paranoia (paranóia)paranoia: paranoid (paranoid) paranoico

Schizophrenia (skítsofrénia): schizophrenic (skitsofrénik)

Manic depression (mánik depréshen): bi-polar (bai pólar) bipolar

Depression (depréshen): depressed (deprésd) depremido

Phobia (fóbia) fobia: phobic (fóbic) fobico

Doctor, I am afraid. I think people follow me and want to harm me.

How often do you feel that?

Not always, but it worries me.

When does it happen?

It usually happens when I’m very tired.

Try to do some Yoga or get a acupreassure massage.

It doesn’t help.

Well, you may be a little paranoid. Here is a prescription for you.

Some conditions happen at birth or early childhood – those may

Improve or cure

Blindness (báindnes) blind (blaind) ciego

Deafness (defnes) deaf (def) sordo

Dumbness (damnes) dumb (dam) mudo

Paralysis (paralysis) paralyzed (páralaised) paralizo

What do we look for when we want to get better?

a remedy (rémedi) remedio

a cure (kiúr) cura

an improvement (imprúvment) mejoramiento

a betterment (béterment) mejoramiento

a solution (solúshen) solucion

a healing (hííling) cura

What can help?

Medication (medikéishen) medicacion

Medicine (médisin) medicina

Prescription (preskrípshen) prescipcion

Massage (masash) masaje

Acupuncture (akiupánkcher) acupancturaTherapy (zérapi) terapia

Yoga (iyóga)

Injection / Shot (inyekshen) injeccion

Operation / Surgery (operéishen/séryeri) operacion

Who can help?

A nurse (ners) enfermera

A doctor (doctor) doctor

A physician (fidíshen) medico

A masseuse (masús) masagista

A psychologist (saikóloyist) psicologo

A psychiatrist (saikáetrist) psiquiatra

A healer (hííler) cura

Where can we go for help?

Doctor office (dóctor)

Clinic (klínik) clínica

Hospital (hospital) hospital

Emergency room (eméryensi rúm)

Yoga class (iyóga)

Massage parlor, or private practice(masay) masage

What do we say to a person who isn’t well?

“Get well soon!”

“We wish you a quick recovery!”

“Get better soon!”