Oral history interview with Jeri Green, 1992
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- Name
- Green, Jeri (Interviewee)
- Resnik, Susan, 1940- (Interviewer)
- Title
- Oral history interview with Jeri Green, 1992
- Other Titles
- Reminiscences of Jeri Green : oral history, 1992; Oral history of Jeri Green, 1992
- Abstract
- Early experiences as mother of boys with hemophilia; diagnosis and treatment of her children at that time; advent of treatment with blood plasma; training as a lab technician and learning to infuse her children herself; difficulties in getting schools to admit boys with hemophilia; stigmatization by physicians for infusing the children herself; frequent re-locations due to husband's employment and consequent difficulties finding new caregivers; involvement in Los Angeles with Dr. Shelby Dietrich and consequent switch from cryoprecipitate to concentrated factor; difficulties associated with getting boys into activities such as Boy Scouts; education of a friend with hemophilic sons to transfuse them; maternal guilt and other emotions associated with hemophilic children; early "remedies" such as tea packs and peanut butter; financial aspects of caring for children with hemophilia, lack of medicinal insurance, etc.; "good Samaritan" stories associated with hemophilia care; sons' abilities to entertain themselves as children in light of limited participation in sports, etc.; sons' desire to maintain privacy regarding their hemophilia; involvement in the Board of the local hemophilia foundation
- Collection Name
- Hemophilia oral history collection
- Subjects
- Hemophilia--History.--United States; Hemophilia--Social aspects; Hemophilia--Political aspects; Caregivers; Hemophilia in children; Green, Jerri
- Format
- oral histories; sound recordings
- Genre
- Interviews
- Date
- 1992
- Note
- Interviewed by Susan Resnik on June 2, 1990
- Note (Provenance)
- Susan Resnik, Gift, circa 1992
- Language
- English
- Library Location
- Columbia Center for Oral History, Columbia University
- Catalog Record
- 12169870
- Persistent URL
- https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/d8-dckr-y329