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She was a single mother of two, working full-time. For Alicia Diggs, she had no idea that her seemingly normal story would lead her to become an advocate for HIV/AIDS. In this episode, Technology Powers: Personalized Medicine.ĭanielle Applestone: It’s hard to imagine a discipline where science, humanity, and now technology are more tightly intertwined than modern medicine. An original podcast from Dell technologies.
But for genomics to work, massive amounts of data must be gathered and processed at incredible speeds, and that sounds like a job for technology.ĭanielle Applestone: I’m Danielle Applestone, engineer, entrepreneur, you’re listening to Technology Powers X. By using DNA to read a patient’s cellular blueprint, vast new possibilities are emerging in the treatment of infectious diseases. So that’s how I found out that I was HIV positive.ĭanielle Applestone: What Alicia didn’t know at the time, but now has in common with millions of others, is that a new field of medicine, genomics, is changing everything. So I’m in this room, I’m just waiting, and the nurse comes in and she pushes a folder in front of me. Don’t let it worry you, besides, you don’t even know what this is. And I’m in a good mood, because in my mind, Alicia, if you have cancer, you can beat this. I’m waiting around and I noticed the nurses chitchatting, and looking pretty serious. So on December 13th, I went to my doctor’s appointment. Let’s call the doctor, set up an appointment. So me being a researcher, I am on researching symptoms and everything, and it just led to lymphoma cancer. So I had lymph nodes in my neck were really, really swollen. Any sense that this was just a routine illness began to fade.Īlicia Diggs: My thought was something more is going on with me. It’ll take a week or so to bypass.”ĭanielle Applestone: That week or so came and went with little improvement. And then the doctor basically was like, “Well, Alicia, you’ll be fine.
I had just the regular symptoms of a cold, the fever, the chills, the cough, loss of appetite, things of that sort. It was 10:00 AM on December 13th, 2001, the first warning signs had come the previous August when she caught what she imagined to be a cold or the flu.Īlicia Diggs: I had strep throat. Energy, Climate Action & Sustainabilityĭanielle Applestone: Alicia Diggs will never forget the place, the date, and the exact time.Storage Automation & Developer Resources.Modern Storage for Kubernetes and Containers.Solutions for Microsoft Azure Stack Family.