Former Texas prison officer fighting state over medical bills
After COVID-19 nearly killed him, a former Texas state prison officer is battling a system ill-equipped for his medical needs.
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After COVID-19 nearly killed him, a former Texas state prison officer is battling a system ill-equipped for his medical needs.
Isabelle Papadimitriou was finally a grandma. The baby girl, Lua, was born in August 2019 in Brooklyn. Though Papadimitriou lived in Coppell and worked as a respiratory therapist in Dallas, she’d been able to visit her granddaughter in New York twice, and in June 2020, she was eager to visit again. “Lua was her everything; it was all about Lua,” says Fiana Tulip, Papadimitriou’s daughter and Lua’s mother. Then, COVID-19 cases spiked in Texas and the trip no longer felt safe. They called it off, and the 64-year-old Papadimitriou started to put in extra shifts at work instead. Later t...