Miracle Worker

Excerpt from Article ‘Miracle Worker’, Nevada Woman March/April 2007

It has often been said that every time a bell rings, an angel gets its wings.  For Las Vegas resident Ann McGee, it was the bell on her telephone that got her her “wings’ – in the form of an airplane – so that she could perform miracle flights every day.

The MFFK program provides America’s children and their parents with free flights to hospitals and treatment centers they could never otherwise visit because of financial hardship.

 McGee notes that Miracle Flights for Kids doesn’t get that many emergencies.  Rather, these children need to get to regularly scheduled appointments.  She can’t emphasize enough the importance of parents getting a second opinion, citing that there are 20,000 known diseases and that doctors know only the common ones.  In many cases, children who were dying because they were misdiagnosed are now thriving because they were flown to proper treatment.

 “Miracle Flights provides an option for parents,” McGee cites.  “Most of the people who call are financially challenged or ravaged by the disease, some spending $4,000 a month just on medications.  Most know where they need to go, whether for proper treatment or a second opinion, but need a way to get there.  I tell parents to take transportation off their worry list because we’ll get them there as many times as they need to go.”

“To use a French term, this cause is my raison d’etre, my reason for being,” McGee says.  “My greatest satisfaction is in knowing that the next time the phone rings, I can say ‘yes.’”