The trip to Montana was as notable for what cancer patient Nancy Hampton and her husband, Art, didn’t see as much as what they did. No needles. No doctors and no chemotherapy dripping slowly into Nancy Hampton’s veins.
For five days the couple were normal tourists, thanks to a gift from the Dream Foundation and the generosity of Lee County residents.
PLAINWELL — Tanya Star McCall remembers lying in bed one evening in August 2007, shortly after she began chemotherapy for breast cancer, and thinking, “I don’t have a reason to fight this.”
“No husband, no kids, no job, no hair, no hope,” she said. “I was just sitting there, bawling, flipping through the TV channels.”
She came across a PBS special on Celtic Thunder, an Irish singing troupe that performs traditional Irish ballads and classic and contemporary American music.
Amarillo, Texas – At the Amarillo Airport John Thomas saw his youngest daughters Robin and Amber after five years apart.
This reunion is possible because of Odyssey Healthcare and the Dream Foundation, which helps make dying wishes come true.
Jan Thompson of Odyssey Healthcare says, “These two daughters have not been home in 5 1/2 years. And so, this is basically his dying wish.”
SEARSPORT — Beverly Lane, 75, of Searsport, is dying. And his last wish was to see his sister, Marilyn Harrison, who lives in Lena, Miss. She was the only living sibling or child who didn’t live close enough to see him often.
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Two years ago, one of Ebony Major’s dreams came true when she met Montel Williams.
The then 26-year-old mother of two had been told by doctors that she had a year to live. Doctors thought she had a rapidly progressing form of multiple sclerosis.
The wishing-granting Dream Foundation arranged for a meeting the famed TV talk show host.
Williams, who has MS, made an impression on Ebony. She said that this only celebrity she ever met was cool, confident and reassuring.