Amy Baxter

And so we made all of those things together and then we had 120 faces and we just morphed them so it was like a little animation of this, you know,

neutral phase going chunks.

And so the nurses would figure out where they thought each of the different intermediate places was.

But the things that I'm most proud about the BARF scale are that it's been translated in three languages for kids with cancer and validated in those languages.

That's a great question.

I don't know.

I think they do, because I don't think they realize that the acronym stands for Baxter Animated Retching Faces Scale.

But the only reason I had to have an acronym was because the journal I wanted to get into was too highbrow to use the word BARF.

And so I snuck it in, but I was like, no, no, no, no.

This is the name of the creators.

This is...

It came from an animation of cartoons.

That's why we have to keep this name.

So I got the name Barf, and also there's a little monster hidden in the last face.

It's got a very dear place in my heart.

But despite this whole Hero's Journey spiral concept, once I was done with it, I wasn't interested in researching nausea anymore.

I did my thing.

Other people can use it.

I'm on to my next thing.

I got so much grief from the doctor who had mentored me through it because he was like, pain is pain is dead.