Chapters 1-5 of The Immortal life of Henrietta Lacks

Upon reading the initial prologue. The reader begins to get a basic background on who Henrietta Lacks is and that cells were cut from her cervix and given the name HeLa. We also learn that HeLa was derived from her first two initials in her first name and last name. It also goes on to tell us that her cells were used for various research in many different areas of medicine around the world. We also learn that many advances in medicine were also accomplished because of her cells. The reader also gets a vague understanding on why her cells are so important to medicine. Later in the reading we are introduced to a researcher named George Gey who was doing tissue culture research at the hospital she was at.  Mary the women who was a college graduate was hired because of her hands and what they could do when collecting all samples. The reader is informed because her cells didn't die they continued to grow and multiply why it was a huge break through in medical science. We also learn about her relationship she had with her children and husband. This was definitely a very loving mother and wife. She never passed judgement nor did she hold one's faults against anyone. She had a child that was placed in essentially a state hospital when she grew to big for her to care for any longer. Because of Henrietta's unconditional love for anyone in her life a piece of her was killed that day. According to the reading Henrietta was unaware that a sample of the tumor that was cut out of her and sent to see if they would survive. Henrietta shared with no one except her cousins that she felt like something was inside of her. The cousins assumed it was a child and in fact it was both. She would have her last child and then days later she would go on to discover by a self examination a hard substance in her cervix. This is what I found to be most interesting only because now days no women would think of doing what she did to discover the tumor in her cervix. The essential management of treatment to me seemed to be unbearable just by reading about her course of treatment and the procedures done to kill the tumors. The reader is introduced to Hopkins hospital. Which now day's is known all over the world. I believe it was because of her cells that made them a world renown Hospital. In the 5th chapter we learn that an important detail had not been told to Henrietta and that was because of her treatment she would never again  be able to have children. Something she was actually planning on doing after she was well enough. No one had informed her that because of the radium it would render patents infertile. The dr's acknowledge that a huge injustice was done to her. My groups questions were not answered actually in the chapters. When in fact they inform us that mistakes were made as far as informing the patent. I also learned that because she was a black women very little would be done for her. She suffered in pain and was not treated like a white person would have been if in her situation in that era of time.