This is Lee Habib, and this is our American stories, and we tell stories about everything here on this show, from the arts to sports and from business to history.

And now we continue with our Opportunity America series.

It's sponsored by Coke Industries, which employ some 67,000 Americans.

Georgia Pacific, a Coke company, makes many of the paper products we use every day,

from tissue and toilet paper to paper towels and more. And Alex Cortez

now brings us the story of one of Georgia Pacific's employees, Vic Billingsley, who lives in

Hattiesburg in our own home state of Mississippi. In 1998, Vic Billingsley was diagnosed with

non-alcoholic cirrhosis of the liver, although Vic was able to live a pretty healthy normal life for years.

It wasn't until 2007, nine whole years later, that his doctor said, you need a transplant.

Kind of all of these things going through my mind is how do I escape this?

There's no exit door.

This is what the cards I've been dealt.

I got into a scenario to where your mind is moving at a hyper speed and it's one of those things that's just absolutely ever-present.

You can't escape it.

I would go to sleep at night only after being just totally exhausted because I couldn't turn it off.

You know, it was so

pressing on me and I would finally fall asleep after just being totally exhausted

and would go through the experience to where you know I'd only sleep probably

maybe a couple hours of time and when I'd wake up I'd go through this thing to where I'd go

wow that was that was a terrible dream that was that was a bad dream and then the

realization would hit you know you'd get that gut punch of it wasn't a dream

you know this is this is your reality and that replayed itself a whole

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