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When the men got to the hospital they saw how bad henrietta was and that blood could not save her. Emmet lacks one of henrietta’s cousin gather 8 men to donate blood for henrietta. She has a lot of blood transfusion that the doctors decided to stop and inform the family that the blood bank was out. In 1951 Henrietta’s cancer has gotten worse she got tumors all over her body and her kidneys are not working no more. He talks to Rebecca about how nice Henrietta was when she was alive even when she got sick. His house was an old house made of plywood and cinderblock. He was an old man who was half paralyzed from when he got polio. She gets lost again but eventually she finds a cousin named Hector Henry also know as cootie. Rebecca doesn’t give up and heads to clover, Virginia to look for the lacks. Who they were she tried to talk to them but they refused to talk about Henrietta, sunny refused to talk to her. She gets lost, drove in circle in front of the Henrietta museum not knowing that’s the place that she is looking for. After sunny ignoring her pagers she decides to look for the town where the lacks last know address was. She stays at the holiday inn hotel and tries to page sunny. So she decides to drive to Baltimore to look for them. Rebecca the author is trying to get in contact with the lacks but they are ignoring her calls. The doctors tried to get another sample of cells from Henrietta but they did not survived like the first ones. Henrietta family visit her daily at the hospital. Soon Henrietta was hospitalized and was kept on painkillers. Henrietta was treated with more radiation to try to stop the growth of the tumor, but it did not help. After many times of coming back and complaining they found a big tumor non operable tumor on her stomach. Henrietta later on return many times complaining about pain, but she was always told that there was nothing wrong with her and sent her home. Henrietta was sent home after her treatments and was told she was cured. In the interview he never mentions who the cells belong to even though he was sending those cells to the scientist who were doing research on cancer cells.
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Soon after Henrietta began her treatment George Gey had an interview on TV about the cancer cells he was working on. As a result people though of research scientist as racist. He was a racist scientist who though only white smart people should have more privileges than everyone, he did not believe in equal rights. When Rebecca tries to call them she gets day on the phone he tells her not to bother them and hang up on her.Īlexis Carrel a scientist, who had won the Nobel for working blood vessels for organ transplant, was also working on growing organs outside the body. While on the phone Debora is called away and when she get back on the phone tells Rebecca that she can’t talk no more that she has to contact the man of theįamily. Rebecca stays on the phone with Debora for about 45min listening to the stories about the family. When Rebecca contacted Deborah and told her that she wanted to make a book about her mother, Deborah agrees to help.
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His response was yeah but at first he didn’t want to give her the information on how to contact them but at the end he gave her the phone number of Deborah, Henrietta daughter. At first she contacted Roland Patillo a gynecologist who had organized the “The HeLa Cancer Control Symposium.” She asks if he knew the lacks. In this chapter Rebecca the author is telling how she became to do the research for the book about Henrietta HeLa cells. Cancer is not the only thing that Henrietta has to deal with she has to send her daughter to a mental institute since she can’t take care of her. Henrietta had to tell her cousin that she has cancer because she had moved to her house to be able to go to the hospital which was nearby. In chapter five Henrietta has done 2 radium treatments and the doctors tell her that the cancer is getting smaller, but she will still have to come to the hospital daily for one month to do x-ray. It also tells about doctor Gay life, how he paid his college and the experiments he did in college. It also tells how doctor Gey had hired his assistant and why. When Henrietta leave the hospital Mary notice that Henrietta cells didn’t die and they are reproducing. In the mean while, Henrietta stays 2 days at the hospital recovering from the radium treatment. This chapter is about when the samples from Henrietta come to the lab to be experiment on but the doctor assistant is at lunch and takes her time to get to the samples. Henrietta finds out she has cancer but does not let her family know what is wrong with her. They also start using Henrietta as one of their patients for the studies. The doctors at the Hopkins hospital start doing their own medical studies from patients without their consent.