An elderly California woman battling terminal cancer was on cloud nine when her last wish of taking to the skies was fulfilled, more than 50 years after landing her dream job as a flight attendant.
Janet McAnally, 79, recently stopped all treatment for her stage 4 lung cancer diagnosis, instead choosing to enjoy her remaining time with the Last Wish Program offered by her hospice care. Including going back to the sky through. KOVR-TV reported.
The center contacted United Airlines pilot Rob Davis, who took McAnally on a spectacular one-hour flight through Calaveras County in California, even allowing him to pilot the plane for the first time.
McAnally said, “I think I was more excited than emotional about it until it was finished and I realized what we had just done.”
“It had rained earlier and so the ground looked very beautiful. Suddenly, the moon started coming out and that made me a little emotional.”
As a young girl, McAnally always dreamed of traveling the world, eventually becoming a flight attendant for Trans World Airlines when she was 26, the outlet reports.
Although her career only lasted seven years, she never forgot her first love.
“I opened the cover of my fourth-grade geography book, and there was a black-and-white picture of the Sphinx and the pyramids,” he told the outlet.
“I thought, ‘I want to see the world.’ That became my passion.”
McAnally’s cancer recently spread to her spinal cord, forcing her to stop all treatments.
As the outlet reports, she now receives pain management and other services solely from Hospice of Amador and Calaveras in the comfort of her own home.
The jetsetter said that when she decided to stop fighting her illness, she got a new outlook on life, instead choosing to appreciate the moments she had left.
“I’ve had a great life,” McAnally said.
“There is no point, even if it is just a month or two left, in sitting and doing nothing or just lamenting and crying over it. It is better to cry tears of joy and enjoy as much as you can.
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