Friday, March 16, 2007
Photo project helps teens describe life with painful disease - Seattle P-I
... Through the photo project, called Photovoice, group leaders at the clinic gave the teens disposable cameras and sent them to visually describe a life with the disease.
"Sometimes we give cameras to people who don't feel like they have power and it helps them create change," said Seema Mhatre, Photovoice's coordinator. "When these kids have pain crises, they have to be admitted to the hospital many times and they sometimes don't feel like they're understood."
The idea was to give them a voice to share with others.
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Like everyone afflicted with the disease, Buck was born with sickle cell, which causes the body to make abnormally shaped red blood cells. The resulting hard and curved cells pass painfully through the system, and can block blood flow to organs, causing organ failure. Frequent hospital visits for blood transfusions and pain medication are common.
Buck's family stopped counting at visit number 50.
... Through the photo project, called Photovoice, group leaders at the clinic gave the teens disposable cameras and sent them to visually describe a life with the disease.
"Sometimes we give cameras to people who don't feel like they have power and it helps them create change," said Seema Mhatre, Photovoice's coordinator. "When these kids have pain crises, they have to be admitted to the hospital many times and they sometimes don't feel like they're understood."
The idea was to give them a voice to share with others.
...
Like everyone afflicted with the disease, Buck was born with sickle cell, which causes the body to make abnormally shaped red blood cells. The resulting hard and curved cells pass painfully through the system, and can block blood flow to organs, causing organ failure. Frequent hospital visits for blood transfusions and pain medication are common.
Buck's family stopped counting at visit number 50.
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