Published monthly for CC employees by the Office of Clinical Center Communications, Colleen Henrichsen, chief. News, articles ideas, calendar events, letters, and photographs are welcome. Deadline for submission is the second Monday of each month. She wants to see her mother. When she's not being treated on 13 West, Amanda lives in Las Vegas with her grandmother Bernita.
Mom lives in Florida and frequent visits are difficult.
Here for an experimental drug treatment for HIV, Amanda bounces and jumps from toy to toy. Hopping onto Grandmother's lap, she plants a long, hard kiss on her cheek. She then sticks out her tongue, dashes off with a toy shopping cart, and flys out the door. Today, Amanda is practicing taking capsules and she doesn't like it. But, she will give instructions on how it's done.