Patient-Client Stories

When Lonnie Evans was diagnosed with cancer in 2007, all he and his wife Edith wanted to focus on was fighting the disease. Read story >

Jane, a Children Law Center (CLC) client, is a devoted mother trying to make the best life possible for her children. Her eleven year-old, hearing-impaired daughter Grace lives with cerebral palsy. Jane told Grace's pediatrician she was concerned her daughter's struggles in school were due to a lack of special support. Read story >

It’s not an easy question for a parent to ask, but Dan McIntosh knew he had to. “Do you want to live with Daddy,” he asked his daughter, “Or do you want to live with Mommy?” Read story >

Three year old Refnely kept getting sick. In one winter alone, she was taken to the emergency room three times for pneumonia, and she was losing weight and developing rashes... Read story >

When Maurice King went back to school, he was on crutches. The last day he had been there, two students followed him outside as he left for home and attacked him. The beating left Maurice with several fractures in his ankle, and a surgeon needed to insert several screws to help the injury heal... Read story >

For 35 years, Maxine Riche guided nursing home patients through their daily routines of getting up, getting dressed, eating and bathing. It was tough work, but she kept going even as her own health deteriorated... Read story >

To his school, Michael was a problem student, getting to classes late and roaming around when he should have been sitting down. But to his grandmother, Lucille Scott, Michael was a lonely teenager who needed help... Read story >

For years, Norris Nicholson couldn’t afford to stay healthy. He was supposed to take nine pills a day to treat a lengthy list of medical conditions: arthritis, high blood pressure, coronary artery disease and diabetes. Added together, his medicines cost $1300 a month. Norris had no health insurance, and he couldn’t keep up. “Either I ate,” he says, “Or I took the medicine.” Read story >

When Steven Weimer was in eighth grade, his teacher often sent him to an intervention room to control his anger. But Steven had no room to let his energy out in the tiny space, and instead of calming him down, the intervention specialist there found his outbursts amusing... Read story >