A True Tale of Angels in the Sky

Wall Street Journal ^ | 2/4/02 | ROGER MCCAFFREY

[H.R. Gross]

High in the skies over Oregon last May, two top insurance executives, overheard by a flight attendant, conspired in hushed tones aboard their company plane.

The CEO and his associate were carrying with them a seven-year-old child named John, clear across the country from the East Coast to a leading leukemia center. It was the only hospital in the U.S. willing to take a chance and give the boy experimental drugs in a desperate attempt to control his stem-cell cancer, an intractable form of leukemia called CML that typically strikes older adults, not children.

[YaYa123]

Thank you for sharing this with us. Thank you.

[YaYa123]

http://www.corpangelnetwork.org/

[Ditter]

Its nice to know this. Thanks

[VRWC_minion]

The irony would be if the exec's ran an HMO.

[Mean Daddy]

The executives avoidance of publicity reminds me of the story of President Reagan when a class of blind kids attended a speech of his. After the speech, Reagan was approached by the director asking if the kids could "see" him with their hands. Reagan did this without any media fanfare or involvement. If it had been Klintoon, he'd had the media tell us how great he was.

[JRandomFreeper]

Great, now I have to explain to the 13 y.o. daughter why her macho dad is weeping.

The guys that do this deserve a special place in heaven.

/john

[SuzanneC]

Local Atlanta radio talk show host Neal Boortz is a private pilot that is a member of the Angel Network of pilots. He doesn't mention it very often, but when he does it is to say what an honor it is to serve these deserving patients.

[DeaconBenjamin]

The answer to that question will bless her.