Disabled and Disdained Lisa Pruitt quoted in the Washington Post
The Washington Post, July 21, 2017
Five days earlier, his mother had spent the last of her
disability check on bologna, cheese, bread and Pepsi. Two days
earlier, he had gone outside and looked at the train tracks that
wind between the coal mines and said, “I don’t know how I’m going
to get out of this.” One day earlier, the family dog had
collapsed from an unnamed illness, and, without money for a
veterinarian, he had watched her die on the porch. And now it was
Monday morning, and Tyler McGlothlin, 19, had a plan.