NPR interviewed Jose Ramirez, author of
Squint: My journey with leprosy, Feb. 1 and you can hear Jacki Lyden's interview with him on
its Web site. From the NPR Web site:
Jose P. Ramirez Jr. had been sick for years before a Mexican healer told him he had "a disease of the Bible." He was 20 when he was diagnosed with leprosy, known as Hansen's disease, in 1968.
The illness uprooted Ramirez from his large family, his high-school sweetheart, and his home in Laredo, Texas. State officials ordered him to seek treatment at the U.S. Public Health Hospital in Carville, La. — the only leprosarium in the continental United States.
Ramirez has written a new memoir about his battle with Hansen's disease. It's called Squint: My Journey with Leprosy. It's an epic story of family bonds, faith and stigma.
NPR interviewed Jose Ramirez, author of Squint: My journey with leprosy, Feb. 1 and you can hear Jacki Lyden's interview with him on its Web site. From the NPR Web site: