. >> lori has chronic rheumatoid arthritis and non-hodgkin's lymphoma. melissa has small cell lung cancer in two years ago she was told she only had three-six months to live. it is a very grim outlook, even five years i think they say 14% survival rate. a very small survival rate. it usually spreads to other areas of your body. that is why i got my chemotherapy to my brain. >> both sisters want to make it clear that they are not trying to end their life. they want to aid in dying act in new jersey so if, and when the time comes, they say they will not have to suffer, instead they can go in peace. >> we would like to control, to say when enough is enough at the end of our lives when we have no options left to us. >> so they are suffering, they clearly have got great relationships with each other. it sounds like their fighters. >> oh, they are. >> i hear couple of things. one of things. one of the reasons that bill died in committee in new jersey was because mental health advocates, physically disabled disabled advocates, think many of the advocates agains

hodgkins. hodgkins' disease. >> when we caught up with dennis holligan, there was a marked difference in his appearance. he looked like somebody who was going through chemotherapy, but he seemed in really good spirits. >> really nice at the cancer treatment place. good people. they treat you like a human being instead of an inmate. >> so what's going on with the cancer? >> i don't know. i guess it's going away. i used to have a big knot, as big as my fist right here on my neck and it's all gone. >> what kind of treatment do you think you might have out on the streets versus in here? >> i wouldn't know. i don't know if they would have treated me or not. and i don't know if they would have took me as a patient without no more on anything, you know what i mean? >> had he not come to jail, he could very well have died from this cancer. and i don't even know if he would have been diagnosed, if he were on the streets. it was only because he was in jail and was able to get health care that he could ge

jay: an aggressive form of non-hodgkin's lymphoma. she received her first chemo treatment last friday. she was terminated. the e-mail from her employer states in part, "unfortunately we have to and your participation in the au pair program. this is not an easy decision or one that is taken lightly." the family says that would force her to return to her home , where shecolombia does not have a job or health insurance. >> she has been cast into a whole other crisis. jay: balance with a qualified for free medical care. then officials with the au pair company who decided to reverse their decision, she can stay while they try to get her a health visa. >> this is my health. this is my life, my second chance i have here. fightsr medical and visa are not over. she hopes to find out in the next several months if she responds to chemotherapy and goes into remission and if her visa isth care approved. officials have told me that the visa should be approved so she can stay to get the treatment she needs and the primary focus should be on her gett

but he was using jedediah hodgkins' map. geek wasnerd or dumbfounded that somebody could have such an accurate map. he imposed his own it and he was dumbfounded. i just want to tell you that. but anyhow -- so they are up there looking -- shank -- by the way, sheridan had left because he figured the campaign is over and he was heading to washington to end it. early really takes a gamble. in thishis is unmatched civil war. no other army marched all night. position and launched an attack. he will not find it anywhere else. away.eep the yankees if you ever go there and study was the one he mistake he made. the key to victory was the valley pipe. he had to get north of the valley pipe. he had to nature the federals could not rally, ok? in thee is halted cemetery. that time, the yankee calvary was in position and you are not going to move those boys. phil sheridan arrived from winchester. that long ride that was memorialized by upon. he got it together and his officers said we are ready to retreat retail winchester and phil sherid

had only been in offers for five months when he started treatment for aggressive form of non-hodgkins lymphoma. he said he even held cabinet meetings in the hospital while he is now cancer free. recently sat down with laura evans to talk about what's' been through. >> in the hospital five days, up all night, and then i took 16 days off, went back again. >> i stayed distract wad lot of things. i stayed real positive. i tried to work with other patients, the whole time i was in the hospital. i made laps around the cancer ward and stopped by and talked to everybody. lowest point was probably near the end of the chemotherapy treatment, because it had sort of cumulative effect. and it really does wear you down. >> tomorrow we will hear more from the governor what said got him through his dreamed, what he credits for his quick recovery. amazing story indeed. >> sure s all right, just ahead: ♪ ♪ >> ♪ >> a began man's chorus wants answers after its members said they were insulted and humiliated by padres. >> saking every being humiliated, this might be the most epic marriage proposal fail. ma

. >> i was diagnosed with cancer it is an aggressive b-cell non-hodgkin's lymphoma. >> advanced cancerf the lymph nodes. fifty to 60 tumors throughout his body. he wanted the public to know everything. confident wanted him to keep it private. >> all of my staff told me not to do it, the doctors told me not to do it. to do this, why did you do it? >> i just thought it would come out. i can did i want to keep it a secret. i wanted to try, if this could help anyone else, i wanted to use what i was going through to help other people. >> thus ghana new journey, and his biggest challenge to date. >> i was in the hospital five days, 24 hour chemo, up all night, then i took 16 days off, went back again. >> that went on for six months. he held cabinet meetings in the hospital, and when his staff wasn't there steroids kept him walking all hours. >> makes you hungry, you can't sleep. you're like wired all night. >> yep. >> so my staff, i was in the hospital, texting, it is like one, two, three, four, 5:00 in the morning, i had nothing to do, sitting in the hospital room just wide awake, you know,

it's an aggressive b cell non-hodgkin's lymphoma. >> an advanced cancer of limp nodes. 50 to 60 tumors throughout his body. he wanted the public to know everyday everything. >> all of my staff told me not to do it and the doctors told me. >> why did you do it. >> i just thought it was going to come it oh. if this could help anyone else -- i wanted to use what i was going to through to help others. >> it began new journey and his biggest challenge to date. >> i was in the hospital 24 hour chemo up all night. >> that went on six months. he held cabinet hospital. when his staff wasn't there, steroids helped him working all hours. >> you're wired all night. my staff. i was in the hospital texting like 1, 2:00, 3:00, 5:00 in the morning, sitting in the hospital room wide awake all these yeats flowing. i would make up in the morning and say what the heck happened? now they're happy i'm back to work and they can get sleep. when he wasn't working, he made the rounds visiting with other cancer patients. of. >> i stayed very positive and focused. i had to keep them pumped up at the same time. >>

our speaker, congealed, ralph hodgkins. a finishing sophomore majoring in physics, came up to me and said can i go to washington this summer and work on problems affecting people with disabilities. i said of course and he was a paraplegic in a motorcycle accident, sliding soft sand, soft curved type motorcycle after his freshman year. he was in on the ground floor at the movement, one of the greatest success movements in american history. those who are of older age remember we didn't even see a student with a physical disability in school. out of sight out of mind. there are no ramps. they didn't want to take the students upstairs, they were segregated. the americans with disabilities act, buildings have been renovated, buildings have been retroactive, there is still a lot to do. the special olympics, racing down connecticut avenue with four people in wheelchairs joyously talking to one another, rules and hospitals and that is right. on the ground floor, part of the demonstrations, the brilliant inventor of much more durabl

after surgical removal, i learned it was hodgkin's lymphoma and i needed chemotherapy.ends having fun while i spent the summer in the hospital bed. patience and positivity helped me get through it and i'm two and a half years in repolice. this summer i'm making a trip to the vatican with my school choir but before i get to sing i get to dance the night away at prom. >> wow. >> jill -- >> these are awesome. >> we see why you're so excited. >> we have anna's mom janice and her dad todd. hi, you guys. >> hello. >> please keep your blindfolds on for just a second. let's bring out your daughter anna gomez escorted by 17-year-old josiah. come on out. >> wow! >> thank you, josiah! >> all right, mom and dad. ready to see your little girl? >> yes. >> take off your blindfold. [ laughter ] you look beautiful! >> you do! >> how do you feel in that gorgeous dress? >> amazing! so cool. >> you're going to be singing? >> yes. >> really? what do you like to sing? >> a lot of things, i like a lot of hip-hop, r&b but i also sing a lot of classical music as well. >> you? you sing it all. >

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[applause] and i give you will hodgkins. >> put your feet into strips of the wheelchair in the third world. there you are. because your sign has been snapped racing down the rough and narrow streets. somehow you've survived the impact and made it home on medical care. here you are without a clue how to stay alive. you badly need to know how people manage to stay alive that you have no way to move beyond. the few wheelchairs in the country were designed long ago for hospital use and they rarely last long. most are discovered in a large pile behind the national hospital. your family begs to help, but what can they do and who will feed the children? if you are like most will plead to get out and they will beat you back into your friends will say she died of a broken back. i snapped my spine in illinois. wheelchairs were plentiful in the u.s. but far from optimal. since the early 1950s, a single company have monopolized the u.s. industry and debated with monopolies do best raising prices for cheaper products. .. whatever you do. every single day, coming down rock, over my teacher ran, fi