Cancer without health care

by Jackie Lima—Pennsylvania

Once we were in her living room, looking at the clipboard, she looked teary eyed and told me that her husband died three months prior. And then her son died three weeks after that. He had cancer and couldn’t get hospitalization, even with the melanoma on his arm! Then a cancer hospital in Virginia took him in and gave him chemotherapy, but it was too late. He was good for a while, but then he died. He was only 37 years old. “This has been very hard,” she said. I listened while she talked about her other children and how lonely she was. I gave her a hug and told her to take care of herself.

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