{"id":9696,"date":"2011-09-08T15:02:50","date_gmt":"2011-09-08T19:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=9696"},"modified":"2011-09-08T11:27:58","modified_gmt":"2011-09-08T15:27:58","slug":"jobless-man-without-healthcare-dies-after-tooth-infection-spreads-to-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=9696","title":{"rendered":"Jobless Man Without Healthcare Dies After Tooth Infection Spreads To Brain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An unemployed Cincinnati man died last week when a minor tooth infection spread all the way to his brain and he had no healthcare to treat it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kyle Willis<\/strong>, only 24-years-old and the nephew of the famed <strong>Bootsy Collins<\/strong>, became another example of the healthcare problem in America.<strong> Willis<\/strong> was told he needed his wisdom teeth removed to get rid of the infection, but he decided to tough it out because of lack of funds and healthcare.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe [doctors] gave him antibiotic and pain medication, but he couldn\u2019t afford to pay for the antibiotic, so he chose the pain meds, which was not what he needed,\u201d <strong>Willis\u2019<\/strong> aunt <strong>Patti Collins<\/strong> said.<\/p>\n<p>While <strong>Willis\u2019<\/strong> discomfort subsided, the infection continued to spread, causing lethal swelling in his brain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An unemployed Cincinnati man died last week when a minor tooth infection spread all the way to his brain and he had no healthcare to treat it. Kyle Willis, only 24-years-old and the nephew of the famed Bootsy Collins, became another example of the healthcare problem in America. Willis was told he needed his wisdom [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9696\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}