VA: Remote Area Medical 5

Eddie Sturgill, Pound, Va.

Will Mays and Eddie Sturgill hang around their car late in the evening. Danny Sturgill was sleeping "like a chainsaw" making it tough for Eddie to sleep in the reclined passenger seat. Early this year Eddie had a triple bypass. With no insurance it cost him more than $300,000. Will quipped "he'll be dead before he pays that off." Eddie said his only option is to declare total bankruptcy.

VA: Remote Area Medical 4

Sheri Wittaker (standing)
"Look at these people," Sherri said as a woman drove by with curlers in her hair, "they are so desperate, somethings got to be done, they come from all over, do you see these people? I can't begin to tell you, you just gotta sit and watch them." Sherri and her extended family set up camp near the National Guardsmen ushering potential patients to parking spots late into the night.

VA: Remote Area Medical 3

Jacob Reese, 5
Jacob came to RAM with his sister Emily, his grandparents, aunt, uncle and infant cousin. The goose egg above his right eye is the result of a head on collision with a parked car while playing in the fairground campground/parking lot. "Will you take a picture of me and my Nana," he asked, "I love my Nana so much." The next day he would cry in his Nana's lap while getting his oozing ear checked by a volunteer physician.