Encourages everyone to have of an open dialogue about issues facing children today. As you know mrs. Trump has traveled the country and world talking to children about their well being, Healthy Living and the importance of responsible online behavior with her be best initiative. Her platform centers around visiting organizations hospitals and schools. And she would be open to visiting the i Promise School in akron. The i Promise School is the School Lebron james opened, who in an interview said he would not sit across from the president. The other part of the statement i find notable, ana, responsible online behavior coming on the heels of a tweet the president of the United States sent out insulting someone. Ana. Exactly. I also want to ask you, boris, about this familiar face. Someone who used to to work in the white house apparently spotted boarding Air Force One. What can you tell bus hope hicks showing up . Yeah, thats right, the former Director Of Communications for the white hou
we devoted a lot of coverage lately to the well being of undocumented immigrants coming into this country and the conditions they face when crossing the border. but those who have been in the united states for years face their own serious health concerns. and our chief medical correspondent dr. sanjay gupta has one mother s story. in order to really understand what s going on here you re going to need to suspend disbelief. lucia is dying. her lungs drowning in fluid. her electrolytes fluctuating which would willy and heart precariously close to shutting done. this 51-year-old mother has end stage renal decease. full on kidney failure.
separate from that the toxins nld up. one of the most important being potassium which at high levels makes the heart stop. this is no way to live. about as close to death as you can get. and what s more, research shows that treating patients with emergency dialysis versus standard dialysis is nearly four times more expensive because the patients like lucia are so much sicker when they come for treatment. they are literally pushing themselves to the brink of death. they are. to get this treatment. am i overstating that. not at all. there is no question it works. lucia. look at lucia now. after dialysis removed ten liters of fluid from her body. how are you feeling. right now i feel good. still, lucia is always worried. mostly about her family, especially her son alex. he watches his mother steadily decline every single week. this is their life.
how hard has this been on you on your family? it s been really hard. it s been really hard for my family. the worst is for my son. he worries about me. because just a few days from now, like clockworks lucia will once again go to precipice of death just so she can live. i ll tell you it s unclear how long lucia can carry on like this. week after week going to this precipice of death. a kidney transplant would improve life and cull down on health care costs. she is not eligible for that. she is eligible to donate her other organs whenever she passes. that is the reality of the situation for people like lucia. dr. gupta, thank you for that reporting. it became an iconic political blooper.