";s:4:"text";s:7979:"It's depriving the parents of the choice that they have to make: to confront the options that have to be confronted. We can do this.". Carol Ann Vetter Demaret, David's mother Everything he ate, wore, or touched had to be sterilized with pericidic acid and placed inside steel capsules inserted through a system of air locks. The King of Germs was going to get him, and the King of Germs had all these wives and we could slay the wives and we would kill the people working for the king, but we never could get to the king. David Vetter, affectionately known as the boy in the bubble, was born with Severe Combined Immune Deficiency (SCID), one of the most severe types of primary immunodeficiency disease. Edwin F. Beschler Suddenly, the isolation that was intended to be a stopgap measure became the only treatment for David's illness; his plastic bubble was now his permanent home. But you don't always know the answer to that until way down the road. Nurses chart notes: I transferred linen and took trash out. Bruce Jennings: To continue to say, "This is a bridge, we just have to wait longer; this is a bridge, we just have to wait longer; be patient..." is wrong. Moments after David's birth, doctors at Texas Children's Hospital in Houston placed the tiny infant in a sterile plastic enclosure until he could be tested for SCID. And, um, she looked at me and she said, "I can't fall in love with this one and be hurt again.". Mary Ada Murphy, Ph.D.: There were so many things he couldn't understand -- like wind -- he absolutely could not understand it. The Vetters had a daughter, but had lost their first son to SCID when he was just seven months old. Patricia Bealmear, Ph.D. He was fascinated by the simple things like the faucet in the lavatory. News report, archival: There's a very special little boy in there -- one who's waiting to leave the hospital for good and go outside. This was the first time that we had any conversation with him about the reasons for his isolation. John R. Montgomery, M.D. John R. Montgomery, M.D. You know, you sort of went around with your fingers crossed saying, "No news is good news." Yet some continued to question whether David himself had borne too high a price for the advancement of medicine. And now they had no way out. Glenn Fukushima, Project Administration And he would always protect me and bring me back safe. David's life contributed to scientific understandings and treatments of severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID), the disease that kept him in the bubble. Coryander Friend "In our rush to prolong life, are we creating states so unnatural that they beg the question of what it means to be human? Will Cohen. : I had no idea that this situation would work for the next week, much less for the next year. We're still amazed and baffled by our technology. Jacqueline B. Vogel: Lots of wonderful things happened at the Texas Medical Center. Narrator: For decades, his story has echoed through the popular culture. Carol Ann Vetter Demaret: I felt, if I could stay distant from him, then if the worst happened I could handle it better. Harry Benson Ltd. Evelyn Nelson McMillan: As a society we have yet to confront these issues. Dr. Rafael Wilson, an immunologist, led David's care. Dr. Shearer's Case Notes: I have shared the preliminary findings with the Vetters -- that David has extraordinary fears and anxieties. : A team of dedicated and courageous people, including David and his family, set out to treat an incurable disease. And that was -- that was the end of that. Carol Ann Vetter Demaret, David's mother: I was wheeled into the delivery room. Carol Ann Vetter Demaret, archival: That's very good, sweetheart! JoAnn Pospisil With first-hand recollections from David's mother and the doctors, nurses, therapists, and the chaplain who cared for him, as well those who were critical of the handling of his case, this one-hour film documents the life of a little boy who became a living experiment in a fight to cure a rare disease. Sucking his thumb constantly and rocking back and forth... News, archival: A specially designed suit allows him to experience the world. Mary Ada Murphy, Ph.D., Child Psychologist: It was just a couple of months and you don't get over grief of losing a child. Kevin O'Brien Jacqueline B. Vogel: It was disappointing; it was very disappointing. ", None of the research, however, yielded a cure for David. ", On-camera interview subjects Now, his doctors were gambling on an experimental procedure to free him from his isolation — but David would live only two weeks in the outside world before succumbing to infection. David Vetter had spent his entire life inside a sterile isolator, with a protective layer of plastic shielding him from the world around him. Now, they sought advice about whether to risk having another child. Narrator: While research went forward on David, Wilson and his colleagues spoke at conferences, wrote articles, and appeared in the media, painting a cheerful picture of David's life in the bubble. Narrator: But as months turned into years, there was little real progress in the search for a cure. Raphael Wilson, Ph.D.: He was not a guinea pig in the sense that we delivered him with the intent of having an experimental subject. News, archival: Right now, he's been restrained to his little bubble world and he's never really been able to get out and walk and play and maybe go to the zoo. Ellen Hilton Texas Medical Center, home to Texas Children's, was the epicenter of medical innovation in the United States, from the separation of conjoined twins to major advances in heart transplant surgery. If he's got this disease we'll look for a matching donor. Kay Gallindo There were a lot of theories. After a few walks in the hospital David was allowed to explore the outdoors for the first time in his life. : You would go in the room and he would be just sitting there, staring into space. Carol Ann Vetter Demaret: David was in awe of everything around him, he was looking right and left all the time. Why do we have to worry about something that maybe years down the road, that may never occur, and that probably, if you look at what we have done over the past two or three years of taking care of David, when the problem comes up, we'll solve it? Narrator: Once he had a SCID baby safely isolated, Wilson planned to repair the infant's immune system with a bone-marrow transplant, as he had already done with immune deficient mice. I think almost any woman in that emotional state would have probably made the same decision. And then came the bad news. I said, "Okay David, I want to tell you why making a hole in the isolator is very bad." : Here he was, inside of this system. David's entire life was spent inside a plastic isolator bubble to protect him from the germs that his body could not fend off. The time was coming soon where something would have to be done," recalls his mother. Raphael Wilson, University of Virginia conference, archival: Can you hear me? Though he tried mightily to face his strange situation with courage and cheerfulness, his despair increasingly showed through. Yorgo Alexopoulos, YA Multimedia, Nurses' Voices The barrier to a bone marrow transplant, or any other possible cure, remained as insurmountable as ever. : 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. Patricia M. Bealmear, Ph.D., Researcher: It was amazing to see him develop. Katherine's bone marrow had contained traces of a dormant virus. In 1974 doctors at Texas Children's Hospital caring for David Vetter considered how they might help him experience life beyond the stationary isolator bubbles that protected him from the germs to which he was so susceptible. I sensed a sadness to him. Murphy encouraged David to escape his bubble through his imagination. And I don't think we ought to do that again. ";s:7:"keyword";s:33:"the boy in the bubble documentary";s:5:"links";s:6694:"Jeremy Vuolo Church Los Angeles,
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