reading response 3; Henrietta Lacks

This week i started reading "the Immortal life of Henrietta Lacks." it's about the woman Henriette Lacks, or HeLa. Who's cells were used and still are used throughout the world for medical and scientific discoveries everywhere. I haven't gotten very far, but what I have discovered is that HeLa was just your average African American southern woman. She grew up in Roanoke, Virginia, married her cousin Day and raised all of her children in the same town. She discovered a knot on the inside of her womb one day and whenever she went in for a routine doctors appointment, her life would never be the same again.