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Click on the links below to read real stories about "Blue Baby" operations, encounters with Dr. Blalock, Vivien Thomas and Dr. Helen Taussig, race relations in the 1940s and more, submitted by users like you. |
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"This is the story of my encounter with Dr. Blalock." Read more "My sister and I were both diagnosed as, 'Blue babies' at birth." Read more "I recall Dr. Taussig drawing a diagram...to indicate where the incision would be made." Read more "I also knew Vivien Thomas and appeared in Life Magazine with 'Anna' the dog". Read more "Vivien Thomas was my Great Uncle." Read more "I turned blue when I ran." Read more "He's a testament to these doctors who so long ago persevered and pioneered this surgery." Read more "It was amazing how pink she became." Read more "Yet each morning they grew stronger." Read more "Without the BT shunt... my daughter would not have made it to her first birthday." Read more "Without their pioneering efforts, my son would not have had a chance at life." Read more "My son is missing the right side of his heart." Read more "His first surgery took place when he was four months old." Read more "My story involves the first group of black men to graduate from The Citadel." Read more "Some people believe that one person cannot make a difference." Read more "I have vivid memories of Dr. Blalock coming in to check on me." Read more "Every doctor...looked at his chart said, 'Oh, you're a Blalock baby!'" Read more "I was the 263rd 'Blue Baby.'" Read more "The story was fascinating, but so incredible I doubted its voracity." Read more "My sister Judy Marblewas born a blue baby in 1941." Read more "It took my mother till I was 4 weeks old to convince the doctors something was wrong." Read more "I did a 500-mile bicycle ride as a fundraiser last summer." Read more "They say I cannot let him cry." Read more "...I probably would not survive beyond 4 or 5 years old." Read more "We work in a field that no one cares about until they are on the table." Read more "In Tennessee in the 1930s, there were no schools for blacks." Read more |
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