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Quite Unlucky Man
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» DCRn replied on Tue Feb 27, 2007 @ 3:16pm |
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Man dying of cancer wins lottery — with a catch Given a year to live, N.Y. resident fighting to get lump sum to pay for care Updated: 7:38 p.m. ET Feb 12, 2007 NAPLES, N.Y. - Wayne Schenk was diagnosed in December with inoperable lung cancer. Doctors at a Veterans Administration hospital told the former Marine he might live for another year or, if he's lucky, maybe 18 months. Five weeks later, Schenk bought a $5 scratch-off High Stakes Blackjack ticket at a drugstore near his home in small-town Naples and hit the jackpot. There had to be a catch, he immediately thought, and there was: The $1 million New York Lottery prize pays out in $50,000 annual installments over 20 years. "If it wasn't for bad luck, I'd have no luck at all," Schenk, 51, said with a wheezy laugh as he sat in a friend's pickup outside an attorney's office where he recently went to draw up his will. Schenk, a lifelong smoker whose parents both died of lung cancer in the 1990s, bought the Orange Inn tavern on Main Street a year ago after decades of working odd jobs in construction, the highway department and at a nearby ski resort in the hilly Finger Lakes region. He has no need for a new house, or a fancy car. What he's hoping to buy is a little time — by checking into a Pennsylvania hospital that specializes in treating advanced-stage cancers. "I understand money can't buy everything, but money can prolong things, you know?" he said. It's proving much trickier than he imagined. To begin with, his insurance with the Department of Veteran Affairs cannot be transferred to an out-of-network provider. (Read the secondary story on the page) |
| I'm feeling wonderbread right now.. | |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» neoform replied on Tue Feb 27, 2007 @ 4:15pm |
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| I'm feeling you up right now.. | |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» DCRn replied on Tue Feb 27, 2007 @ 7:42pm |
| Coolness: 158440 | Yes, and msnbc on February 12th. Your point? |
| I'm feeling wonderbread right now.. | |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» neoform replied on Tue Feb 27, 2007 @ 10:09pm |
| Coolness: 339870 | my point is you gotta get with the times! ;) |
| I'm feeling you up right now.. | |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» DrGonzo replied on Tue Feb 27, 2007 @ 11:04pm |
 Coolness: 266160 | that's sad.
the story i mean. |
| I'm feeling coin-operated right now.. | |
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