Pancreatitis and PowerBall

[Guest guest]

This is excerpted from an article on CNN's web site. The new PowerBall winner

has pancreatitis - I hope he donates some money for research.

http://www.cnn.com/2002/US/12/27/whittaker.profile.ap/index.html

Powerball winner stands by faith, hard work

Friday, December 27, 2002 Posted: 4:09 AM EST (0909 GMT) ...

But despite holding history's largest single lottery ticket, and despite painful

bouts of pancreatitis and other intestinal ailments that have cost him his

spleen and half his pancreas, and required eight operations in eight years,

Whittaker wants to keep working.

Jerry/NC