$50K and a Call Girl: A Love Story

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Street justice, punk!

I met my brother Ross

when I was three years old.

Growing up, Ross was

the cute one.

The athletic one.

The popular one.

But he was also my best friend

from the day I met him.

And from the day my dad

married his mom,

I never thought of him as

anything but my brother.

And I loved him.

When he was diagnosed

with brain cancer,

I decided to document

his survival.

This should've been the

end of the movie.

Instead, it's the beginning.

I want to hold the sun.

So this is Ross Patterson.

He just received

a penis reduction.

I gave three inches

to a needy kid in China.

And, uh...

And I'm reading

Highlights Magazine.

who always circles shit

in fucking Highlights?

I want to find the rake

in the cloud,

I want to find the baseball

bat inside the tree nut.

You loved

Highlights when we were kids.

Hey, Ross?

- Oh, doctor's here.

Sorry to keep you waiting.

Brings a therapy dog

to a patient consultation,

it's a pretty good bet that

he's not delivering good news.

Hi.

- Um... yeah.

W-would you mind

putting that thing away

and shutting it off?

Um, because of the HIPAA Laws,

I have to have you document

So, if it's all right

with you, it's fine with me.

This has been going on

for two and half years,

I think we're fine.

We got the results back

from your PET scan.

And, um...

...here's where we stand.

Unfortunately, the tumor

is growing more rapidly

than we anticipated.

As a matter of fact,

we're at levels we haven't

seen in over a year.

Wait, s... so

what are you saying?

Uh... We're not

able to control

this with chemotherapy.

In addition, it's metastasized.

We found traces of the

cancer in your bone marrow,

in your liver,

and your pancreas.

Uh, considering your heart

condition,

I think more chemotherapy

is way too risky.

We do have other options.

What are my other options?

Um, o-okay, a-all right,

y-you need to understand

that this is not a cure,

but I think

we can significantly stop

the aggression of this tumor

with radiation therapy.

Yeah, I'm-I'm not going

back to chemo, all right?

I-I-I'm not...

...- I-I-I'm not getting...

- ... It's not...

...it's not chemo,

it's radiation.

I'm not getting

radiation again.

I-I'm not, I-I'm not gonna

lie here in a fucking bed,

I'm not gonna

shave my head again,

I'm not gonna be pricked with

needles so you guys can...

...you don't

fucking understand!

You have a choice, and you may

not want to do this,

but I think that

it would significantly shrink

the damage

that's being done by...

Okay, when you say

significantly shrink,

Like in terms of a timeline,

what are you saying,

like how much... What is

this gonna give him?

What's...?

At the rate

of progression now...

...without

immediate intervention,

we're looking

at one to three months.

However, with radiation

and drug therapy,

we can probably extend that

to a period

of six months to a year.

Six months

to a year, man.

Yeah, I'm not, I'm not

going through it.

Look, I-I understand...

I'm not going through six months

of fucking radiation therapy

again, all right?

I'm not going through it.

You... need to give

this some time.

To think about the choice

you want to make

and think about what you want

to do with the time

you have left.

- I'm sorry.

No, it's... I got to rub

a therapy dog,

or else I'd be

a mess right now.

Now, I have to take Beans back.

I promised that I would

take him to

the children's ward with me.

Are you... are you kidding?

You just gave me

the worst news of my life.

So I-I'm gonna die

and you want the dog?

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