FedEx flies home terminally ill little girl to spend her last days with her family

In an era where corporate corruption fills the media coverage, I wanted to share this story that shows the positive side of big business.

From the Harrison Daily Times in Harrison, Arkansas

FedEx flies terminally ill girl home

By CELIA DEWOODY
celiad@harrisondaily.com

Published: Saturday, September 26, 2009 6:08 AM

Because of caring people and a caring company, a terminally ill little Green Forest girl was flown home Friday by air ambulance from M. D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, so she can spend her last days surrounded by the people who love her most.

Friday afternoon, Jada was flown home to the Ozarks — on a gurney, attached to the machine that breathes for her. FedEx Freight paid the $11,000 bill for the special medical flight her family was unable to afford.

Jada Harper, who turned seven on Sept. 1, has an inoperable malignant tumor in her brain and is in a coma with a ventilator doing her breathing for her. She has been at the famous cancer center in Houston since July, but her situation is now at the point not much else can be done to help her.

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