No more kids...

Henrietta was very brave and tough throughout her radiation treatments. She kept the reason for her visits to John Hopkins to her self and didn't tell her family/cousins for a long time. I admire her strength and persistence. What really hit me was that after she has been undergoing her radiation treatments she asked her doctor one of her visits when she would be better to have another child. The only thing Henrietta had to look forward to was having a bigger family, and for her to find out that she was now infertile due to all the radiation treatment she had been undergoing must have been devastating. At this point I was furious with with her doctor for not making it clear to Henrietta that undergoing all of this treatment she was then not going to be able to have anymore children. How could you forget to tell that to your patient? Being able to give the gift of life is the most amazing thing anyone on this earth can do and they just took that from Henrietta like it was nothing.