It is a misty Monday morning, and Clifford White is waiting to go home from the hospital. In his short-sleeved T-shirt and dark cut-off sweat pants, he looks as though he doesn’t feel the chill. But his hands rhythmically rub against one another, seeking warmth in the friction.
White, a cancer patient, takes the bus to Harborview Medical Center for treatments. Now 53, he said he has made the trip nearly every day since he was 16.
After losing a leg to the disease, White is now in a wheelchair, so his trips to the hospital are more difficult. ...