A aged California girl battling terminal most cancers was on cloud 9 when she was granted one remaining want to soar the skies – greater than 50 years after touchdown her dream job as a flight attendant.
Janet McAnnally, 79, lately stopped all therapies for her stage 4 lung most cancers analysis, opting as an alternative to benefit from the time she has left, which included getting again into the sky via a Final Want Program supplied by her hospice care, KOVR-TV reported.
The middle reached out to United Airways pilot Rob Davis who took McAnnally on a shocking hour-long flight via Calaveras County in California, even permitting her to pilot the aircraft for the primary time.
“I think I was more excited than emotional about it until when it was done and I realized what we had just done,” McAnnally mentioned.
“It had rained earlier and so the land just looked beautiful. All the sudden, the moon began to come up and that got me, I think I got a little emotional.”
As a younger lady, McAnnally at all times dreamed of touring the world, ultimately turning into a flight attendant for Trans World Airways when she was 26-years-old in 1971, the outlet reported.
Whereas her profession solely lasted seven years, she by no means forgot her old flame.
“I opened the cover of my fourth grade geography book, and there was a black and white picture of the Sphinx and the pyramids,” she informed the outlet.
“I thought, ‘I want to see the world.’ That became my obsession.”
McAnnally’s most cancers lately unfold to her backbone, main her to stop all therapies.
Now she solely receives ache administration and different companies from Hospice of Amador and Calaveras within the consolation of her dwelling, the outlet reported.
The jetsetter mentioned she was given a complete new outlook on life when she selected to cease combating her sickness, opting as an alternative to understand ever second she had left.
“I’ve had a lovely life,” McAnnally mentioned.
“There’s no point, even if it’s only a month or two left, to sit around and do nothing or to just moan and cry over it. Better to cry happy tears and enjoy as much as you can.”
