Right After Henrietta Lacks

Henrietta was born in 1920. She moved to Virginia in a city called Clover in 1924 when her mom passed away. Her father decides that taking care of all ten children is too much and he splits them up to live with family. Henrietta was put with her granddad that lived in a four-room lodge that was once possessed by slaves. When Henrietta was young and at the age she went to school, she was exceptionally popular particularly, because she was very pretty. She and her cousin Day, begin to have youngsters together since they imparted a space to each other when they were children. Henrietta had her first child, Lawrence, when she was just fourteen years of age and a couple of years after the fact, she has a little girl, Lucile. In the book, the writer
When she tells her in which cousins and friends they tell her to visit a doctor. She didn’t listen and within a few months had another baby. Because of her pregnancy, her friends believed it was the pregnancy that had caused her pain. Her husband takes her to John Hopkins hospital in East Baltimore. This was the only hospital that offered treatment to black patients. Howard Jones, the gynecologist on duty, listens to Henrietta’s problems as well as take note that she has a long list of untreated medical conditions. Upon examining Henrietta he discovers that she has a tumor about the size of a nickel. He takes note that the tumor must have grown at an alarming rate because when Henrietta was giving birth a few months earlier, the doctors would have not missed the
This happened on February 5, 1951. Rapidly, Howard Jones educates her, however Henrietta still conceals her analysis from her loved ones. Henrietta goes to the hospital for a couple days keeping in mind the end goal to do treatment and testing. She signs a form that gives the specialist's consent for them to do any surgical procedures that they deemed necessary, however this was purposefully extremely vague. Not long after checking in, the specialists do a number of tests including the use of radium and additionally cutting two little bits of tissue from Henrietta's cervix. Her cervix was going to get cut without her being educated all together for the specialists to have a few samples. One of the samples was sound tissue while the other was the threatening tumor. The samples were taken to George Gey without Henrietta's consent for some testing and analysis on the cells. George Gey does some testing and realizes that the cells doubled in 24 hours and somehow do not die. George Gey names the cells HeLa from Henrietta Lacks' name and imparts this news to his partners. George Gey trusted that he could find a cure for cancer, but all of his attempts had failed, to this day Henrietta's cells are dividing red