discover how to grow the business of you. at keller.edu. imagine for a moment having to fight stage four cancer going through all the painful chemo treatments and coming home to a huge stack of bills. the truth is, it happens to folks every day. and we just wanted to profile one of those americans. here s priscilla mentor s story. i didn t eat enough to have my stomach, you know, getting that big. some people thought i was pregnant. reporter: she wasn t pregnant. priscilla mentor had colon cancer. her doctors gave her 23 months to live. skin for skin, all that a man
people diagnosed with cancer in the us have to provide documentation that shows why they can t work and they rely on the support of hospital staff to provide proof certain employers are more generous about it and certain employers are less generous about it. but yes it s a constant problem here but we it s work with people on an individual basis the nurses who are sort of invaluable in helping sort of people work around the schedules stephanie gets chemo every friday she has the weekend free and uses the time to recuperate. melanie morgan drives two and a half hours for her chemo treatments her daughter accompanies or. they re staying in a kind of hotel for patients and it s funded by private donations. each room has a plaque with donor names the patients can stay here for free melanie is
faced and this rivalry is like no other in college hoops. why is it so intense? one of the biggest reasons? carolina players have always dated a lot of duke coeds and vice versa. trust me. he was a tar heel. that s why he s saying that, right? but he brought that. you didn t get to see that. for a lot of us young guys, frankly, young black men in journalism, this was a guy we all looked up to. there weren t a lot of us doing it at his level. to see him do it and speak in a language we all talk like this quite frankly around and we are having drinks and whatnot. to see him bring that to sportscenter. to see him be the guy out front, it was a big deal. got to spend time with him. when he went to chemo treatments he d go to mixed martial arts sessions. no idea how he did what he did. he was hurting for a long time and a lot of us didn t realize how much he was hurting.
tomorrow. laura is live in our new york newsroom. enough to make your head spin, if all of these allegations are true. aside from giving patients costly chemo treatments, federal investigators say dr. fata ordered assistants to provide the treatment and if patients got nervous he prescribed them xanax. he was ordering chemotherapy for all end of life patients instead of letting the patients die in peace. an oncology nurse who applied for a job with dr. fa a filed a claim that she witnessed treatments that should have lasted minutes dragging on for hours. why didn t they do anything? that was three years ago. and in that time, how many people could have been saved and how many families could have been spared? if convicted on current