For example, I had planned to ask my anesthesiologistif he were "in network,"but it turns out I didn't even meet him until fiveminutes before I was rolled into the OR. https://www.instagram.com/kthalps/
There aint nothing you wouldnt do for them especially if theyre sick. When Cole was younger, it looked like we just beat him all the time, because he would bruise all over if you just squeezed him or picked him up. I just Walter H. White Ironically, Jackson says, When these guys get hopeless, I sit with them and talk to them and this is coming from a guy who has no hope. Yo! I don't wanna choke down thirty or forty pills and lose my hair, an lie around, too tired to get up, and so nauseated that I can't even move my head. Walter H. White And the Jackson family had recently lost their insurance coverage.
Hes received more than 20 certificates, enrolled in all the drug and alcohol abuse programs offered, and studied everything from business to cooking. Well make the right choice, you are not the only one it affects.
:
These doctors, talking about "surviving". Obamacare might have saved Walter White from crime. You cleaning up after me. Walt? Walter H. White | What they appraently don't know is that most teachers have terrific health insurance. Would Obamacare have made it possible for Walt to pay his doctor bills, and thus avoid a life of crime? Note to readers: if you purchase something through one of our affiliate links we may earn a commission. They even wrote to celebrities ranging from members of the band Alabama to football players to Ronald Reagan, all of whom donated memorabilia for the Jacksons to auction off. Walter H. White It's important to note, Joyce says, that Obamacare alone might not have kept Walt from venturing to the dark side, for his new career path was also motivated by his desire to provide for his family, and he had failed to renew his life insurance policy. Are there no teachers there? Its pretty tough., Jackson doesntdenyhis mistakes.
: Before I had kids, Id never known there was a love like that. He's got health coverage through his employer, the Albuquerque public school system.
I'm sorry. And they'd only know their cost, not the add-on costs of the hospital, infusion center, lab work, etc. [seeing Walter at his house]
But they were still $150,000 short of the money required to pay for the transplant. Next, they show him obsessively worried about the cost of his medical care. Im excited about it. I did not put him up. [with tears in his eyes, very emotional] It made a crazy person out of me. :
Just crossed my fingers and waited for the bill. "Thus," says Joyce, "Walt would have been protected from catastrophic expenses and the financial ruin that led him to cook meth in the first place.". Skyler White The truth? You cleaning up after me. Once a month, Jackson transported the meth with his cargo. Letting Cole die was not an option, and the Jacksons quickly got to work raising money. To make love? He pressed you, come on. Oh, Hollywood. : All rights reserved. Jesse Pinkman He asked how you were doing and I am sorry but I don't have the best poker face these days where that's concerned. I'm sorry, it's just I choose not to do it. : It was an old drug that had been on the market for years, and my co-pay was something like $1.72. When I said I wasn't, he next assumed my husband was the teacher (which he isn't.) I thoughtnot. Jackson was sentenced tothree life sentences along with three 10-year charges. But Dicky Joe Jackson is optimistic now that the American Civil Liberties Union has launched a campaign against life sentences without parole for nonviolent offenses. I mean, my entire life it just seems I never had a real say about any of it.
Some face-saving bullshit that allowed me to generously accept his charity and then when I turned that down he flat out offered to pay for my treatment, which is exactly what you expected him to do didn't you? Walter H. White Well how about you just said 'He's fine' huh? I thought it was a bluff. | Walter H. White Correction: An earlier version of this story misstated Dicky Joe Jackson's age. :
Id never faced anything like that and I hope no one else has to. The fact that convicted murderers and rapists go free after serving only years or months in jail makes the cruel and draconian punishment for nonviolent crimes all the more absurd and perverse.
: : But I guess it happens to a lot of people.. In the pre-Obamacare world, he was stuck with having to pay that out of pocket. Once you have kids the whole game changes.
They were given a choice, Dicky says: raise the money and pay for the only hope Cole had to live, or seek hospice care that would make Cole as comfortable as possibleas he died.
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Did I want a doctor administering me anesthesia to be distracted by doubt? :
Skyler White The problem is the treatmentisn't covered by insurance. But he sees the punishment as inappropriate: Im no angel, he tells me.
All my time at home was spent building stuff for my kids. For the three people in the United States unaware of Walt and his healthcare history, he was the fictional protagonist of the acclaimed, now-finished TV series "Breaking Bad." (McBryde's assistant told Salon that McBryde does not comment on cases. But, hewrote, I have never harmed a soul."
Skyler White Skyler White : "If Walt opted out of his employer's coverage," says Joyce, "he could select a plan from his state's insurance exchange that included his preferred physician and hospital in its network.
Absolutely not.
Walter H. White The bad news was that the transplant would cost $250,000. : After a year, in 1995,Jackson was arrested for selling half a pound of methamphetamine to an undercover officer. He knew something was wrong with you and he pressed me. Filming & Production Skyler White Walt's family prevails on him to go outside of the network to see a super-star specialist who charges accordingly. : Walt? What? Because of their efforts, including a petition asking President Obama to review federal cases of sentencing without parole, Jackson told me, he has hope: "Because for the first 17 years, there was nothing It seems like this year theyve got their minds set on doing something Im really worked up about it. Walter White (Bryan Cranston) receives chemotherapy as his wife Skyler (Anna Gunn) looks on in an episode from the first season of "Breaking Bad. https://twitter.com/kthalps : To enjoy a meal? All wrong.
Walt asks how much it will cost, and here's the incredible -- as in not to be believed -- part: They actually tell him! One time I was picking up a prescriptionfor a chemotherapy side effect. 'He's fine' and then it would have been done. What about your son? Skyler White The judge foundthat heeither conspired to possess, or possessed, with intent to distribute, 81.5 kilograms; 358times the amount that was found on him.
Doctors probably wouldn't know the answer, and patients probably wouldn't even ask the question. sometimes I feel like I never actually make, any of my own choices. No.
Look, we all in this room, we love each other. Plus there's the extreme awkwardness of the patienteven asking about money matters. But what good is it to survive if I'm too sick to work, to enjoy a meal, to make love. http://katiehalper.com/. : How would his life have been different, though, under the Affordable Care Act? I don't like the way you talk about my private affairs. The judge who presided over Jacksons case has been accused of abuse of power andharsh and unfairsentencing. In this crazy state, Jackson was working full-time driving livestock between Texas and California. | Walter H. White
After more than one costly hospital stay, Walt winds up owing some $200,000. That's how you'd remember me, that's the worst part. And that's how you would remember me. :
You think maybe you could have just have said that? It has been my experience that doctors -- well, theirstaffs -- tend to be a bit vague about money matters. He is 55.
[calmly] : The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Advance Local.
That's the worst part. One year, two years, like it's the only thing that matters.
Because thatswhat it takes to change things, for people to become aware.. I know that what I did was not right or legal, even in a life and death situation, as ours was, he wrote on the November Coalition's website. | But they did what they said theyd do., Significantly, the man who prosecuted Jackson doesnt think he was the ringleader either. : TheirreportA Living Death: Life Without Parole for Nonviolent Offenses, details the racist and classist application of life sentencing and introduces seemingly countless tragic stories like Jacksons. I had to get the money.
: But the biggest money mistake was the episode in which Walt meets with his two doctors to discuss an experimental treatment they feel might work. When he learns he has lung cancer, he decides his odds of soon being dead are so high that he must do whatever he can to amass a big enough pile of cash not only to pay for his cancer treatment but also to provide for his family after his demise.
What I want what I want, what I need is a choice. But what good is to just survive when I'm too sick to work? All rights reserved (About Us). For what time I have left, I wanna live in my own house. Kinda like some fig leaf, ya know.
Official Sites -- but it's a totally unrealistic premise given the lifestyle they depict for him. Technical Specs, [during a family meeting about Walt's cancer treatment, during a tense fight amongst the family]. After applying to national charities for ill children, some twice, and getting nowhere, they reapplied to the National Children's Cancer Society, and received $50,000. : To people who are not even in our lives anymore. You told him about the cancer didn't you? Skyler White The Jacksons were able to raise $50,000 this way. What do you think I said? : Calling me from the Forrest City Correctional Institution in eastern Arkansas, Jackson related many of the details of his heartbreaking story, the result of a combination of some of our nations greatest failures: an ineffective and destructive waron drugs, draconian sentencing and over-incarceration without even the pretense of rehabilitation, and a heartless healthcare system that forces people to make unthinkable choices. :
He's in his scrubs, I'm nude under my hospital gown, wearing those paper booties.is this the right time for a financial chat?
Walt. He offered me a job.
But it was my favorite show before my breast cancer diagnosis, and that didn't change. And like his father, and many truckers, he took speed to stay awake during long drives. And now my grandkids. I'm sure they have their reasons, first and foremost being the dizzying array of private insurance companies they have to deal with.
Walter H. White What I noticed was that while the writers mostly got the medical stuff right, they got the money stuff wrong. Fair enough. : Copyright 2022 Salon.com, LLC. She writes for The Nation, Rolling Stone, Vice, The Guardian, and has appeared on MSNBC, HuffPost Live, RT, Sirius Radio. Walter H. White : The reason isn't pvertly stated-- perhaps to pay medical bills for his son? Then, in 1989, Jackson was convicted of transporting more than one kilogram of marijuana and served one year in a county jail in Tylertown, Miss. ), Jackson was incredulous at his sentence: I had no idea they could do what they said they would do. Skyler White 2022 Advance Local Media LLC.
At the outset,they show Walter White holding down a degrading second job in a car wash. Of course I do, Skyler. I was desperate, Jackson says. Come on. : Company Credits : Release Dates Wanna cook? In addition, Cole had to receive a literal lifetime of chemotherapy, and a monthly hemoglobin treatment before and after the transplant, whichcost $3,700 and had to be paid upfront. These are not the trappings of someone who needs to work at a car wash to make ends meet. [he makes a non-verbal "what are you doing here?" But it's an HMO and is structured to reward patients who use only the doctors within its network.
Skyler White He lives in a nice house with an in-ground pool and drives a new Prius. Didn't you? Me me some um some dead man, some artifically alive, just marking time No. Me, a some dead man, some artificially alive just marking time. You've read the statistics sheet, these doctors talking about surviving, one year, two years, like it's the only thing that matters. I don't like the way you're talking to me. Clearly everyone there thinks ofteachers as these poor, lower-middle-class wage slaves.
They say outright: $170,000. Nonetheless, says Joyce, even with life insurance, Walt's family would have had to sell the house and perhaps declare bankruptcy to pay off his medical debt. OK, we we're talking. They sold their belongings, and they wrote to family and friends asking for donations.
When I laughed at the cost, the pharmacist asked, "Teacher?". Walter H. White I don't want to choke down 40 or 50 pills every single day, and lose my hair, lie around, too tired to get up, and so nauseated that I can't even move my head.
Associated Press articles: Copyright 2016 The Associated Press. So I never asked my big Informed Consumer question. In the end, it has mostly worked out fine, but I can't imagine a conversationas efficient as the one shown in "Breaking Bad"taking place in the real world. Oct. 1, 2013 -- Let's suppose Obamacare had existed in 2008, before Walter White ever mixed his first fateful batch of crystal meth. : Walter H. White I can't believe it. https://www.facebook.com/thekatiehalpershow : : Registration on or use of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement, Privacy Policy and Cookie Statement, and Your California Privacy Rights (User Agreement updated 1/1/21. Skyler White Reproduction of material from any Salon pages without written permission is strictly prohibited. Walt, when it came right down to it, I didn't know what else to do but tell him the truth. SALON is registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office as a trademark of Salon.com, LLC. Appointed by President Bush in 1990, JudgeJohn H. McBryde received a rare public reprimand in 1995 for hisintemperate, abusive and intimidating treatment of lawyers, fellow judges and others, which detrimentally affected the effective administration of justice and the business of the courts. He was barred from hearing any new cases for a year. : ", Most importantly in Walt's case, says Joyce, his out-of-pocket costs would be capped at a percentage of his income (somewhere between 6 percent and 9 percent, depending on his exact income). Don't you want to see your daughter grow up? ------------------------------------------. He then explained that he'd noticed teachers have the best prescription coverage. Privacy Policy and Cookie Statement updated 7/1/2022).
The prosecution offered Jackson a chance to lower his sentence, but he refused to testify against his co-defendants, explaining to me:If I make a mistake Im gonna pay for it myself. Jackson was found guilty of conspiring to posses or possessing with intent to distribute.
Walter H. White
gesture].
Walter H. White Affecting one in 250,000 males, it causes recurrent bacterial, viral and fungal infections, lowers blood platelets and leads to easy bleeding and bruising. This inability to get the dollars nailed down at the onset of my illness was a source of frustration to me. Why? Didn't you? Because of the rarity of Coles disease, they found no foundations prepared to help. I choose not to do it. Okay? :
Coles doctors explained that without a bone marrow transplant, he would likely have less than three years to live.
Hes received more than 20 certificates, enrolled in all the drug and alcohol abuse programs offered, and studied everything from business to cooking. Well make the right choice, you are not the only one it affects.
:
These doctors, talking about "surviving". Obamacare might have saved Walter White from crime. You cleaning up after me. Walt? Walter H. White | What they appraently don't know is that most teachers have terrific health insurance. Would Obamacare have made it possible for Walt to pay his doctor bills, and thus avoid a life of crime? Note to readers: if you purchase something through one of our affiliate links we may earn a commission. They even wrote to celebrities ranging from members of the band Alabama to football players to Ronald Reagan, all of whom donated memorabilia for the Jacksons to auction off. Walter H. White It's important to note, Joyce says, that Obamacare alone might not have kept Walt from venturing to the dark side, for his new career path was also motivated by his desire to provide for his family, and he had failed to renew his life insurance policy. Are there no teachers there? Its pretty tough., Jackson doesntdenyhis mistakes. : Before I had kids, Id never known there was a love like that. He's got health coverage through his employer, the Albuquerque public school system.
I'm sorry. And they'd only know their cost, not the add-on costs of the hospital, infusion center, lab work, etc. [seeing Walter at his house]
Just crossed my fingers and waited for the bill. "Thus," says Joyce, "Walt would have been protected from catastrophic expenses and the financial ruin that led him to cook meth in the first place.". Skyler White The truth? You cleaning up after me. Once a month, Jackson transported the meth with his cargo. Letting Cole die was not an option, and the Jacksons quickly got to work raising money. To make love? He pressed you, come on. Oh, Hollywood. : All rights reserved. Jesse Pinkman He asked how you were doing and I am sorry but I don't have the best poker face these days where that's concerned. I'm sorry, it's just I choose not to do it. : It was an old drug that had been on the market for years, and my co-pay was something like $1.72. When I said I wasn't, he next assumed my husband was the teacher (which he isn't.) I thoughtnot. Jackson was sentenced tothree life sentences along with three 10-year charges. But Dicky Joe Jackson is optimistic now that the American Civil Liberties Union has launched a campaign against life sentences without parole for nonviolent offenses. I mean, my entire life it just seems I never had a real say about any of it.
Some face-saving bullshit that allowed me to generously accept his charity and then when I turned that down he flat out offered to pay for my treatment, which is exactly what you expected him to do didn't you? Walter H. White Well how about you just said 'He's fine' huh? I thought it was a bluff. | Walter H. White Correction: An earlier version of this story misstated Dicky Joe Jackson's age. :
Id never faced anything like that and I hope no one else has to. The fact that convicted murderers and rapists go free after serving only years or months in jail makes the cruel and draconian punishment for nonviolent crimes all the more absurd and perverse.
: : But I guess it happens to a lot of people.. In the pre-Obamacare world, he was stuck with having to pay that out of pocket. Once you have kids the whole game changes.
They were given a choice, Dicky says: raise the money and pay for the only hope Cole had to live, or seek hospice care that would make Cole as comfortable as possibleas he died.
This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
Did I want a doctor administering me anesthesia to be distracted by doubt? :
Skyler White The problem is the treatmentisn't covered by insurance. But he sees the punishment as inappropriate: Im no angel, he tells me.
All my time at home was spent building stuff for my kids. For the three people in the United States unaware of Walt and his healthcare history, he was the fictional protagonist of the acclaimed, now-finished TV series "Breaking Bad." (McBryde's assistant told Salon that McBryde does not comment on cases. But, hewrote, I have never harmed a soul."
Skyler White Skyler White : "If Walt opted out of his employer's coverage," says Joyce, "he could select a plan from his state's insurance exchange that included his preferred physician and hospital in its network.
Absolutely not.
Walter H. White The bad news was that the transplant would cost $250,000. : After a year, in 1995,Jackson was arrested for selling half a pound of methamphetamine to an undercover officer. He knew something was wrong with you and he pressed me. Filming & Production Skyler White Walt's family prevails on him to go outside of the network to see a super-star specialist who charges accordingly. : Walt? What? Because of their efforts, including a petition asking President Obama to review federal cases of sentencing without parole, Jackson told me, he has hope: "Because for the first 17 years, there was nothing It seems like this year theyve got their minds set on doing something Im really worked up about it. Walter White (Bryan Cranston) receives chemotherapy as his wife Skyler (Anna Gunn) looks on in an episode from the first season of "Breaking Bad. https://twitter.com/kthalps : To enjoy a meal? All wrong.
Walt asks how much it will cost, and here's the incredible -- as in not to be believed -- part: They actually tell him! One time I was picking up a prescriptionfor a chemotherapy side effect. 'He's fine' and then it would have been done. What about your son? Skyler White The judge foundthat heeither conspired to possess, or possessed, with intent to distribute, 81.5 kilograms; 358times the amount that was found on him.
Doctors probably wouldn't know the answer, and patients probably wouldn't even ask the question. sometimes I feel like I never actually make, any of my own choices. No.
Look, we all in this room, we love each other. Plus there's the extreme awkwardness of the patienteven asking about money matters. But what good is it to survive if I'm too sick to work, to enjoy a meal, to make love. http://katiehalper.com/. : How would his life have been different, though, under the Affordable Care Act? I don't like the way you talk about my private affairs. The judge who presided over Jacksons case has been accused of abuse of power andharsh and unfairsentencing. In this crazy state, Jackson was working full-time driving livestock between Texas and California. | Walter H. White
After more than one costly hospital stay, Walt winds up owing some $200,000. That's how you'd remember me, that's the worst part. And that's how you would remember me. :
You think maybe you could have just have said that? It has been my experience that doctors -- well, theirstaffs -- tend to be a bit vague about money matters. He is 55.
[calmly] : The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Advance Local.
That's the worst part. One year, two years, like it's the only thing that matters.
Because thatswhat it takes to change things, for people to become aware.. I know that what I did was not right or legal, even in a life and death situation, as ours was, he wrote on the November Coalition's website. | But they did what they said theyd do., Significantly, the man who prosecuted Jackson doesnt think he was the ringleader either. : TheirreportA Living Death: Life Without Parole for Nonviolent Offenses, details the racist and classist application of life sentencing and introduces seemingly countless tragic stories like Jacksons. I had to get the money.
: But the biggest money mistake was the episode in which Walt meets with his two doctors to discuss an experimental treatment they feel might work. When he learns he has lung cancer, he decides his odds of soon being dead are so high that he must do whatever he can to amass a big enough pile of cash not only to pay for his cancer treatment but also to provide for his family after his demise.
What I want what I want, what I need is a choice. But what good is to just survive when I'm too sick to work? All rights reserved (About Us). For what time I have left, I wanna live in my own house. Kinda like some fig leaf, ya know.
Official Sites -- but it's a totally unrealistic premise given the lifestyle they depict for him. Technical Specs, [during a family meeting about Walt's cancer treatment, during a tense fight amongst the family]. After applying to national charities for ill children, some twice, and getting nowhere, they reapplied to the National Children's Cancer Society, and received $50,000. : To people who are not even in our lives anymore. You told him about the cancer didn't you? Skyler White The Jacksons were able to raise $50,000 this way. What do you think I said? : Calling me from the Forrest City Correctional Institution in eastern Arkansas, Jackson related many of the details of his heartbreaking story, the result of a combination of some of our nations greatest failures: an ineffective and destructive waron drugs, draconian sentencing and over-incarceration without even the pretense of rehabilitation, and a heartless healthcare system that forces people to make unthinkable choices. :
He's in his scrubs, I'm nude under my hospital gown, wearing those paper booties.is this the right time for a financial chat?
Walt. He offered me a job.
But it was my favorite show before my breast cancer diagnosis, and that didn't change. And like his father, and many truckers, he took speed to stay awake during long drives. And now my grandkids. I'm sure they have their reasons, first and foremost being the dizzying array of private insurance companies they have to deal with.
Walter H. White What I noticed was that while the writers mostly got the medical stuff right, they got the money stuff wrong. Fair enough. : Copyright 2022 Salon.com, LLC. She writes for The Nation, Rolling Stone, Vice, The Guardian, and has appeared on MSNBC, HuffPost Live, RT, Sirius Radio. Walter H. White : The reason isn't pvertly stated-- perhaps to pay medical bills for his son? Then, in 1989, Jackson was convicted of transporting more than one kilogram of marijuana and served one year in a county jail in Tylertown, Miss. ), Jackson was incredulous at his sentence: I had no idea they could do what they said they would do. Skyler White 2022 Advance Local Media LLC.
At the outset,they show Walter White holding down a degrading second job in a car wash. Of course I do, Skyler. I was desperate, Jackson says. Come on. : Company Credits : Release Dates Wanna cook? In addition, Cole had to receive a literal lifetime of chemotherapy, and a monthly hemoglobin treatment before and after the transplant, whichcost $3,700 and had to be paid upfront. These are not the trappings of someone who needs to work at a car wash to make ends meet. [he makes a non-verbal "what are you doing here?" But it's an HMO and is structured to reward patients who use only the doctors within its network.
Skyler White He lives in a nice house with an in-ground pool and drives a new Prius. Didn't you? Me me some um some dead man, some artifically alive, just marking time No. Me, a some dead man, some artificially alive just marking time. You've read the statistics sheet, these doctors talking about surviving, one year, two years, like it's the only thing that matters. I don't like the way you're talking to me. Clearly everyone there thinks ofteachers as these poor, lower-middle-class wage slaves.
They say outright: $170,000. Nonetheless, says Joyce, even with life insurance, Walt's family would have had to sell the house and perhaps declare bankruptcy to pay off his medical debt. OK, we we're talking. They sold their belongings, and they wrote to family and friends asking for donations.
When I laughed at the cost, the pharmacist asked, "Teacher?". Walter H. White I don't want to choke down 40 or 50 pills every single day, and lose my hair, lie around, too tired to get up, and so nauseated that I can't even move my head.
Associated Press articles: Copyright 2016 The Associated Press. So I never asked my big Informed Consumer question. In the end, it has mostly worked out fine, but I can't imagine a conversationas efficient as the one shown in "Breaking Bad"taking place in the real world. Oct. 1, 2013 -- Let's suppose Obamacare had existed in 2008, before Walter White ever mixed his first fateful batch of crystal meth. : Walter H. White I can't believe it. https://www.facebook.com/thekatiehalpershow : : Registration on or use of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement, Privacy Policy and Cookie Statement, and Your California Privacy Rights (User Agreement updated 1/1/21. Skyler White Reproduction of material from any Salon pages without written permission is strictly prohibited. Walt, when it came right down to it, I didn't know what else to do but tell him the truth. SALON is registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office as a trademark of Salon.com, LLC. Appointed by President Bush in 1990, JudgeJohn H. McBryde received a rare public reprimand in 1995 for hisintemperate, abusive and intimidating treatment of lawyers, fellow judges and others, which detrimentally affected the effective administration of justice and the business of the courts. He was barred from hearing any new cases for a year. : ", Most importantly in Walt's case, says Joyce, his out-of-pocket costs would be capped at a percentage of his income (somewhere between 6 percent and 9 percent, depending on his exact income). Don't you want to see your daughter grow up? ------------------------------------------. He then explained that he'd noticed teachers have the best prescription coverage. Privacy Policy and Cookie Statement updated 7/1/2022).
The prosecution offered Jackson a chance to lower his sentence, but he refused to testify against his co-defendants, explaining to me:If I make a mistake Im gonna pay for it myself. Jackson was found guilty of conspiring to posses or possessing with intent to distribute.
Walter H. White
gesture].
Walter H. White Affecting one in 250,000 males, it causes recurrent bacterial, viral and fungal infections, lowers blood platelets and leads to easy bleeding and bruising. This inability to get the dollars nailed down at the onset of my illness was a source of frustration to me. Why? Didn't you? Because of the rarity of Coles disease, they found no foundations prepared to help. I choose not to do it. Okay? :
Coles doctors explained that without a bone marrow transplant, he would likely have less than three years to live.