Molokai History: (from "The Separating Sickness: Ma'i Ho'oka'awale: Interviews with Exiled Leprosy Patients at Kalaupapa, Hawaii" by Ted Gugelyk and Milton Bloombaum, Ma'i Ho'oka'awale Foundation, Honolulu, HI, 1979) Male Part-Hawaiian Partly Disfigured 48 years of age 37 years in Kalaupapa Leadership My Early Life How did it happen? There was no leprosy in our family. [...]
Molokai History: (from "The Separating Sickness: Ma'i Ho'oka'awale: Interviews with Exiled Leprosy Patients at Kalaupapa, Hawaii" by Ted Gugelyk and Milton Bloombaum, Ma'i Ho'oka'awale Foundation, Honolulu, HI, 1979) (continued from yesterday) Part-Hawaiian Male Blind 43 years old 31 years in confinement Kalaupapa kids also had what we called, the "lobster club." That was the nose [...]
Molokai History: (from "The Separating Sickness: Ma'i Ho'oka'awale: Interviews with Exiled Leprosy Patients at Kalaupapa, Hawaii" by Ted Gugelyk and Milton Bloombaum, Ma'i Ho'oka'awale Foundation, Honolulu, HI, 1979) (continued from yesterday) Part-Hawaiian Male Blind 43 years old 31 years in confinement Little by little, I got worse -- different parts of my body started to [...]
Molokai History: (from "The Separating Sickness: Ma'i Ho'oka'awale: Interviews with Exiled Leprosy Patients at Kalaupapa, Hawaii" by Ted Gugelyk and Milton Bloombaum, Ma'i Ho'oka'awale Foundation, Honolulu, HI, 1979) (continued from yesterday) The Long Road -- from Papakolea to Kalaupapa to a University Degree Part-Hawaiian Male Blind 43 years old 31 years in confinement On October [...]
Molokai History: (from "The Separating Sickness: Ma'i Ho'oka'awale: Interviews with Exiled Leprosy Patients at Kalaupapa, Hawaii" by Ted Gugelyk and Milton Bloombaum, Ma'i Ho'oka'awale Foundation, Honolulu, HI, 1979) Part-Hawaiian Male Blind 43 years old 31 years in confinement (to be continued tomorrow) The Long Road -- from Papakolea to Kalaupapa, to a University Degree I [...]
Molokai History: (from "The Separating Sickness: Ma'i Ho'oka'awale: Interviews with Exiled Leprosy Patients at Kalaupapa, Hawaii" by Ted Gugelyk and Milton Bloombaum, Ma'i Ho'oka'awale Foundation, Honolulu, HI, 1979) Male, Part-Hawaiian Blind, Disabled, Married 70 years of Age 57 years at Kalaupapa and Hale Mohalu (continued from yesterday) The State Has Provided: I Am Grateful To [...]
Molokai History: (from "The Separating Sickness: Ma'i Ho'oka'awale: Interviews with Exiled Leprosy Patients at Kalaupapa, Hawaii" by Ted Gugelyk and Milton Bloombaum, Ma'i Ho'oka'awale Foundation, Honolulu, HI, 1979) Male, Part-Hawaiian Blind, Disabled, Married 70 years of Age 57 years at Kalaupapa and Hale Mohalu The State Has Provided: I Am Grateful To Our Benefactors (At [...]
Molokai History: (from "The Separating Sickness: Ma'i Ho'oka'awale: Interviews with Exiled Leprosy Patients at Kalaupapa, Hawaii" by Ted Gugelyk and Milton Bloombaum, Ma'i Ho'oka'awale Foundation, Honolulu, HI, 1979) Female, Filipino Married, Able-bodied Age: 41 8 years at Kalaupapa Love Could Not Overcome Fear I got the disease when I was thirty-three years old. I came [...]
Molokai History: (from "The Separating Sickness: Ma'i Ho'oka'awale: Interviews with Exiled Leprosy Patients at Kalaupapa, Hawaii" by Ted Gugelyk and Milton Bloombaum, Ma'i Ho'oka'awale Foundation, Honolulu, HI, 1979) Male, Part-Hawaiian Widowed, Blind, Disabled Age: 80 65 years at Kalaupapa That Wild Germ, Bucking Like A Wild Horse The worst problem I have had was the [...]
Molokai History: (From "The Separating Sickness: Ma'i Ho'oka'awale: Interviews with Exiled Leprosy Patients at Kalaupapa, Hawaii" by Ted Gugelyk and Milton Bloombaum, Ma'i Ho'oka'awale Foundation, Honolulu, HI, 1979) Female, Japanese Disfigured, Blind 70 years of age 40 years at Kalaupapa Akerameru My family had many problems after I got the disease. [...]