Surrounded by Loved Ones Sister Was Catalyst to Freedom
Evansville Courier & Press (August 14, 2005)
Author: Maureen Hayden, Courier & Press Staff Writer 464-7433 Or Haydenm@Evansville.Net
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Darlene Fortwendel was standing in the lunch line in the crowded dining hall of a federal prison in Texas when she got the news her liver cancer was terminal.
Five months had passed since she'd first been diagnosed, but she'd yet to receive treatment or even see an oncologist.Surrounded by Loved Ones Sister Was Catalyst to Freedom
In fact, prison doctors had told her at one point the cancer diagnosis was wrong. The lesions on her liver, discovered by doctors at a small hospital in Illinois in January, were likely just benign cysts, they'd said.
But by late May, the prison doctors knew they were wrong. Fortwendel was getting sicker.Finally -- despite standing orders from Washington, D.C., to cap medical costs -- her prison d...Try vLex for FREE for 3 days
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