In for the fight of his life vs. liver disease

[Editor’s note: Pat Gamache of Odessa continues the story of his dealings with the medical profession and battles with addiction and illness. Our December 19/26 issue in 2019 left off with Pat coming out of his shell and making end-of-life arrangements.

Continued from last week.

Time to concentrate on my wife and where we wanted to spend my last days. As far as I was concerned I needed nothing more than a cave to live in. Material things meant nothing anymore.

My wife hadn’t worked in a year! We were trying to survive on $1,100 a month. That was our house payment each month, so money was a ver...