Monday, October 10, 2011
Tumors had spread throughout Henrietta’s body. She suffered pains all over her body . She was receiving a blood transfusion as usual when suddenly her whole body became rigid. She felt such a severe pain that she had to bit her tongue. The doctor injected her with a heavy dose of morphine and the doctor stopped all medications and treatments. As a result Henrietta’s condition worsened and she died a month later. When Gey heard that Henrietta had died, he called her husband to give him the sad news about her death, and also to ask for permission to perform an autopsy on her body. In the end, her family kept her body for a while and then, she was buried next to her mother.
The writter went Baltimore looking for henrietta's family because she wanted more information about Henrietta. Finally, She found the place that Henretta used to live in. She met Courtney Speed and others who were going to open a museum of Henrietta’s honor. The writer saw a picture and a documentary about Henrietta and her unique cells, but she could not talk about Henrietta without leting her families know.
Then the writer traveled to Clover, Virginia she was looking for Lacks Town. When she arrived there, she introduced herself with Cootie, Henrietta’s first cousin. His name is Hector Henry but everyone call him “Cootie” because when he was a kid, he got polio disease and a white doctor got him into the hospital passing him off as his son. The doctor did that because the hospital did not treat black patients at that time.
He came back to his house, after a year but he still could not move his arms very well like a normal person. He built his own house two times because the first one burnt. Cootie talked about Henrietta with the writter. He told her that some people were saying that Henrietta’s sickness was made by a person, but also others said that it was by a doctor. No one knows what is true .
Question:
1-why the doctor did not tell her family that she was dying????
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