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ËÄ»¢Ó°Ôº's One Crisis Away project focuses on North Texans living on the financial edge.

VIDEO: A Checkup After Isac Madrid's Bone Marrow Transplant

ËÄ»¢Ó°Ôº | By Courtney Collins
Published December 5, 2013 at 7:14 AM CST

ËÄ»¢Ó°Ôº's series looks at four families on the financial edge. Isac Madrid suffers from a rare illness that makes it impossible for him to work and support his wife Elizabeth and 1-year-old son. He's already had a liver transplant and received his second bone marrow transplant on Nov. 11.

http://youtu.be/PTA20z-daFQ

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Health & Wellness One Crisis AwayThe MadridsBaylor Scott & White Medical CenterTexas OncologyEPP
Courtney Collins
Courtney Collins has been working as a broadcast journalist since graduating from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University in 2004. Before coming to ËÄ»¢Ó°Ôº in 2011, Courtney worked as a reporter for NPR member station WAMU in Washington D.C. While there she covered daily news and reported for the station’s weekly news magazine, Metro Connection.
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