Category: Health

Living Beyond Labels: Navigating the Medical Needs of a Family With Disabilities

A gram scale sat with its stainless-steel face open on Marni Rosen’s kitchen counter. Numbers flashed, calibrating the small spoonsful of high-fat cooking oil, butter and heavy whipping cream that Rosen prepared. She eyed the ticking digits to their precise tenth decimal, remembering the strict instructions from the Epilepsy Center in a local San Francisco children’s hospital. After a debilitating series of Electrical Status Epilepticus in Sleep (ESES) seizures nine years ago, Zeke, Rosen’s then 4-year-old son, began a meticulous, medically managed ketogenic diet.

Living Beyond Labels: A Sunset Family With Disabilities’ Everyday Survival

Jinyou sprawled herself on the church’s basement floor, picking at the daycare’s fuzzy carpet distracting her little fingers. She did not hear the hushed conversation between the daycare teacher and her mother, Shan Hong, happening a few feet away from her, nor did she see her mother’s eyes widening slowly and her hand lifting to cover the concerned expression worn across her lips.

Putting Butts in Proper Place

On Friday, June 30, a six-month effort was launched to reduce the
number of toxic cigarette butt waste in San Francisco’s
Sunset and Richmond districts when SF supervisors Sandra Lee Fewer
and Katy Tang organized a kick-off event and beach clean-up at Ocean Beach.