Hughes wanted the American dream! But at age 28 the dream was put on hold. Diagnosed with breast cancer, she had a mastectomy. It would be the first of many health hurdles.
Over the years she would battle cancer several more times.
“That’s when he gave me up to die. There was no hope,” she said.
Hope had run out. She says she became disabled. Eventually she and her son lost their Lehigh Acres home.
“He lost his job so we had to give the house back to the bank,” Hughes said.
That was in 2003. Since then they have lived in a truck.
Henrietta says help from the Government turned out to be a dead end.
“I get a referral from this person that person until there was no more referrals to go.”
Henrietta does have family living in Fort Myers. We asked why she doesn’t stay with them. She said she didn’t want to discuss it.
That story is quite different than her original.
Won’t stay with family. Yep, there’s more there.