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outbound and the return missions, and as a result of their visit in Chicago, Joline has been confirmed as a strong candidate for the specialized implant surgery later this year.
Gene
Gene was our first Angel Flight passenger ever, and was such a wonderful gentlemen. He was married with kids and grandkids and mostly retired when we met him and his wife on our first mission together. He was recently diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, but had two things going for him. First, they found it somewhat early, and second, he was referred to a specialist in Houston at MD Anderson who had an experimental regime that Gene qualified for. The prognosis for pancreatic cancer patients usually gives the patients six months to live, but Gene was able to live for more than five years after he was first diagnosed.
He and his wife needed to make regular trips to and from Houston to receive the treatment, at times as often as each week. Driving roundtrip from Kansas City to Houston that frequently would have been too much of a burden on a healthy person, much less someone going through cancer treatments. He also couldn’t fly commercially because his immune system was compromised, so his only real practical solution was to fly in a private airplane. He didn’t necessarily need a pressurized turbine aircraft, so he made many of his trips in smaller piston aircraft. We took him several times, and were happy to be a part of extending his life for so many years beyond the typical expectation for his cancer.
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