on sunday morning, may 6, at 9:04 a.m., helen opened her eyes and turned to robert and took her last breath..

shocking figures uncovered by labour show some patients are suffering agonising waits of as many as 541 days to begin treatment.

"i hit the lottery," derek valenzuela, now 45 and a professional baseball scout for the chicago white sox, said of being born into the family..

�now we know the astonishing truth that some patients are waiting a year or more just to get treatment. it�s simply not good enough.�..

later, after robert and other family members said their final goodbyes, hospital workers started wheeling helen out of the room..