Chapter 5-6 Timeline
Chapter 5:1951
Henrietta left the hospital, went back to living normally
Spent time with her children and family
After her checkup the doctor told her the tumor was
shrinking
She had to start x-ray therapy, which required her to go every
week day for a month
She informed her cousins, Sadie and Margaret, that she was
sick with cancer, but that so far she’s better
Henrietta began bleeding when she got her period and it
continued to bleed after all her x-rays
Towards the end of her treatment, Henrietta asked her doctor
if she can have babies again, and the doctor told her that she was now
infertile because of the treatments
After her therapy she felt a burning sensation inside, and
her urine came out like broken glass
They discovered that she had acute gonorrhea
Chapter 6: 1999
Rebecca Skloot became obsessed over Henrietta’s cells, also
known as HeLa
She decided to write a book about Henrietta Lacks
In order to start her book she called Roland Patillo, the
creator of “The HeLa Cancer Control Symposium.”
He informed her that Henrietta’s family, the lacks would
never give her in formation because of the trouble with the cells
She called Deborah, Henrietta’s family member, and she was
ecstatic about it
When she called again, Deborah was no longer interested
because of the men in her family
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