Night Doctors pg.155-169

Finally we find out information about Henrietta's children during a more relevant date! Rebecca Skloot planned and made an agreement to meet up with the Lacks family.

Rebecca first met Sonny Lacks in the lobby of a Holiday Inn in Baltimore. On that New Years day, Sonny drove Rebecca to their house and explaining how Rebecca was so hard-headed and never gave up on talking to the family in an admiral way.

Next Rebecca would meet Lawrence, who also seemed like a nice person, offering Rebecca pork and eggs.  Lawrence was curious about what kind of discoveries they made with Henrietta's cells because no one had them anything.

 Rebecca told them that through HeLa, scientists developed corneas, polio vaccine, cancer treatment, and more. Lawrence was astounded and kept saying it was a miracle. Lawrence and Sonny don't remember Henrietta much from their childhood, only the strict parts."I blacked it out of my mind because of the sadness and hurting". (Skloot 161)

 At this point the two sons said that Rebecca passed the test and all of the sudden she was able to meet and speak with Day Lacks(Henrietta's Husband) and Bobbette Lacks(Lawrence's Wife).

Day didn't seem like he was an angry person but rather calm. Bobbette seemed annoyed of the publicity of the HeLa cells and kind of talked to Rebecca like she was just any other news reporter. Day and most of the family suffered from health problems. But the whole family agreed not to get treatment from the hospital or else they would steal their cells again. Which I totally agree that Johns Hopkins Hospital would.

Then the subject about night doctors was brought up from Bobbette saying that doctors would kidnap African Americans during the night to perform experiment with drugs and incisions without any anestegia. I thought that was disgusting and I can't believe that it was true. Then they talked about the Ku Klux Klan abducting African Americans and killings during the night.

Lastly Day would make a remark that I thought was important towards the whole book. "What really would upset Henrietta is the fact that Dr.Gey never told the family anything -we didn't know nothing about those cells and he didn't care. That just rubbed us the wrong way. I just kept asking everybody, 'Why didn't they say anything to the family?' They knew how to contact us! If Dr. Gey wasn't dead, I think I would have killed him myself." (Skloot 169)

Until next time.............