Picoult continues on this theme of “saving” by using Suzanne as Sara’s crutch, as she makes her coffee each morning and informs her of any missed phone calls. While in the hospital, Sara receives a call from Jesse’s principal informing her of Jesse’s suspension. On the car ride home she notices a bruise on his arm from a needle and assumes he has been using drugs. Jesse angrily explains how he has been donating blood that gave Kate platelets behind the family’s back, in order to “save” his sister. After two weeks in the hospital, Kate developed an infection that placed her in a coma on a respirator, which is “saving” her for the time being.
They persisted, setting up camp in medical libraries, reviewing animal experiments, badgering researchers, questioning top doctors all over the world, and even organizing an international symposium about the disease. Despite dead ends of research,the horror of watching their son’s health decline, and being surrounded by skeptics, they persisted until they finally hit upon a theraphy involving adding a certain kind of oil, both isolated from rapeseed oil and olive oil to their son’s diet. They contacted over 100 firms around the world until they found an elderly British chemist (Don Suddaby) working for Croda International who was willing to take on the challenge of distilling the proper formula. It proved successful in normalizing the accumulation of the very long chain fatty acids in the brain that had been causing their son’s steady decline, thereby halting the progression of the disease. There was still a great deal of neurological damage remaining which could not be reversed until new treatments were found to regenerate the myelin sheath (a lipid insulator) around the nerves.
My Sister’s Keeper My Sister's Keeper is about a thirteen-year-old named Anna Fitzgerald who finds the need to sue her parents for medical emancipation. Anna was conceived by preimplantation genetic diagnosis to be a sibling bone marrow match donor for her sister Kate, who suffers from acute promyelocytic leukemia. In her short life Anna has undergone numerous procedures to provide her sister Kate with what she needs to fight her disease such as bone marrow and stem cells. Upon learning that she is to give up a kidney for her sister Anna decides that she no longer wants to be used as an organ bank so, she does her research and hires lawyer Alexander Campbell to represent her. This bestselling novel by Jodi Picoult that is told by the sides of all its characters touches on many ethical issues; one of which is preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD), otherwise known as “designer babies” or savior siblings.
After arguing and pleading with Ed, Erin convinces him to let her do more research on her hunch. Erin goes to Hinkley, CA where she talks with Donna Jensen and her family, who is very sick along with her young daughter, and discovers that there are many more Hinkley residents who have several different, but similar illnesses as the Jensen family. After Erin takes samples of the water outside of the PG&E plant (and flirtatious trips to the local water department for copies of files), Erin discovers a well-organized cover-up of an industrial poisoning (hexavalent chromium) by PG&E in the town of Hinkley’s water supply. This, of course,
alopecia Gabriela Gorbet 5/3/12 Anatomy 1 Mon-Wed 8am-11am Alopecia I have chosen to write my paper on the Alopecia Areata, an auto immune skin disease. I wanted to write about Alopecia because I have a friend who is under going test to determine whether or not she has the disease. It started off with a bald spot right on the top of her head, and she was really worried because of how big and pronounced it really was. So she went to the dermatologist and they couldn’t give any answers. So they sent her to a hormone specialist, they said that they couldnt figure out what it was, or what was causing it.
He is discovered by Mrs. Shears and runs away due to her screaming. 2. Christopher says he has trouble understanding people and their feelings. The police had arrived to take him into questions and when the questions became too much for Christopher, he groans to block it all out. He then gets arrested for assaulting the policeman and his father lectures him when he picks his son up.
They feared Richard, and some of the white people felt it necessary to act out their racist feelings in order to cover up their fear. White coworkers beat Richard because his boss was kind to him. Richard later had to leave a good job because those racist co-workers would “kill” him. When the principal at Richard’s school had asked Richard to give a speech to a large audience of white and black people, Richard refused to read the principal’s prepared speech. By reading the principal’s speech, Richard was saying what the white power wanted him to say and to Richard this would be giving in to the very thing he hated so much.
Lahiri uses Gogol’s unique name to illustrate the confusing struggle he and possibly other bicultural people face while trying to fit in. Ashoke and Ashima Ganguli, Gogol’s immigrant parents living in the United States, choose to give the honor of naming their baby to Ashima’s grandmother who lives in India. After sharing the news of Ashima’s pregnancy with their respective families, the couple must wait for the letter containing the baby’s name to arrive. Yet on the day of Gogol’s birth the letter has not arrived. In the United States babies must be named before they leave the hospital so a birth certificate can be processed.
Colby's friends had been warning him for some time that they did not like the way Colby had been behaving. But after Colby did something, his friends decided that he should be hanged. They tried to rationalize their decision by saying that they, ".... had a perfect moral right to do so because he was our friend, belonged to us in various important senses, and he had after all gone too far." (Barthelme, 1973, pg. 194) His friends would not listen to Colby's argument that, "Going too far was something everybody did sometimes."
The interesting aspect about the man who yells a lot and has issues with his son is he has the stress factor that Janis talks about in her article. He had a falling out with his son and described it to us early in the film. At the very end, it becomes very clear that he was not looking at the facts but simply had a grudge on the defendant because of his