David in his suit which he agreeded to use for 7 days only
David in his 'bubble house'

Yesterday, i saw a documentary about this ' Boy who lived in the bubble '. :( it was sad man.

Less than 10 seconds after being removed from his mother's womb, David entered the plastic germ-free environment that would be his home for most of his life.The doctors had decided that a bone marrow transplant might give David's immune system a jump start; however they had expected that David's sister, Katherine, would be a match. Unfortunately, that was not the case.As the years went by, David moved to other environments in the hospital, each one bigger to fit him and the bubble.


David once said, "Whatever I do depends on what somebody else decides I do. Why school? Why did you make me learn to read? What good will it do? I won't ever be able to do anything anyway. So why? You tell me why."


he "served as a kind of tourist attraction for VIPs." LIKE WTH. when someone is sick or have rare diseases humans treat them like wtf man.


when suggested that David be removed from the bubble and let nature take it's course, Montgomery ( one of David's doctors )said, "For these many years we had had a success story, and should this happen, this would be the ultimate declaration that it was a failure, that the whole thing was a failure."


so obvious he was thinking about him being a success rather then for David's own good right! D:


Three years later, at the advice of the doctors who had encouraged David's parents to have David in the first place, David's parents decided to allow his medical team to perform an unmatched bone marrow transplant, with marrow donated by his sister Katherine.


LIKE WTH. they were using David as a human geniuea pig laaaaaa! like some kinda lab expt.


The 1984 transplant operation went well, and for a few months hope was high that David would be able to leave the bubble. A few months after the operation, David became sick for the first time in his life; he started having diarrhea, fever and severe vomitting from intestinal bleeding. These symptoms were so severe that David had to be taken out of the bubble for treatment. In response to a direct question from his father on whether he wished to be taken out of the bubble, David replied, "Daddy, I will agree to anything to feel better." Out of the bubble, he continued to get worse and sank into a coma; his mother was able to touch his skin for the first and last time before he died. He died 15 days later on February 22, 1984 of burkitt's lymphoma.





OMG LA ! SO SAD :( :( :(
ann also blogged abt it.