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By F.DN’A FARIS
Kappuhannock Nens Contributing Writer
My husband has the wrong disease.
If Wilson’s condition required teams of doctors and complex surgery. Medicare would cover most of his bills. But Medicare doesn't cover the care that Alzheimer’s disease requires: long-term care. So we’ve exhausted our life savings, and we have to rely on Medicaid for his care.
1 recently went to Washington to tell my story to Congress. I’ve been paying close attention to the battle over the federal budget, and the proposed cuts in Medicaid. I wanted the politicians to know just how important Medicaid is to us and to thousands of others in our situation.
I wanted the people making these life-altering decisions to look at one of the many faces of the people who would be hurt by such deep cuts.
My husband Wilson served his country in the Navy. Then he worked 23 years as a science teacher and parttime supermarket clerk. Wilson saved enough money for the two of us to live modestly after retirement.
But in 1990, he was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease. 1 took care of him myself for three years, feeding, dressing and bathing him. But his Alzheimer’s got worse and worse: now he needs round-the-clock supervision so he won’t wander off or injure himself.
Hard as it was, 1 provided that care all by myself until February of 1993. But then the Alzheimer’s made him hostile and too hard for me to handle.
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