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DAPHNE HUTCHINSON
Rappahannock Newt contributing writer
Living in a small town, or a small county like Rappahannock, friends know when you’re in trouble.
And knowing, they can help.
Seven-year-old Jessie Waites is in trouble and her friends are trying to help.
Jessie has leukemia. A lifethreatening form of cancer of the blood, Jessie’s disease was diagnosed two weeks ago. She is now a patient at Georgetown University’s Vince Lombardy Cancer Research Center, receiving chemotherapy on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.
Jessie’s mother, Lanise Waites, was a resident of Rappahannock County until last year when she moved into Washington, D.C. to be closer to her job in the psychiatric ward of the Washington Hospital Center.
But she always considered the relocation to be temporary and planned to return as soon as she could to the country. Economics kept her in the city; nurses’ salaries are higher there than at Fauquier Hospital, the Rappahannock Clinic or Primavera Alcohol Treatment Center, where she worked while living in Rappahannock. And, as a divorcee, she needed the additional income.
Lanise has hospitalization for Jessie, but insurance, no matter how comprehensive, never covers all the costs of an extended hospital stay. And Jessie’s stay will be extended.
Her doctors see her treatment continuing for three to four years before, they hope, her leukemia goes into extended remission.
In the meantime, Lanise has been forced to take off from work without pay in order to remain with her daughter around the clock as Jessie copes with the side-effects, the nausea and pain, of chemotherapy and other treatments.
Lanise Waites needed more than
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