ST. LOUIS, MO (KTVI - FOX2now.com)—
Brenda Ford is a nurse at Bethesda Southgate in south St. Louis County. Beyond that, she is a cancer victim and a single parent who has a son in the navy who is about to enter a combat zone in Iraq. She was telling a co-worker about her wish to get to Guam where her son has been stationed waiting to ship out."I want to see him before he goes to Iraq and I was afraid that if I didn't I would regret it for the rest of my life," she said. "Something might happen."
So Brenda is talking about all of this and another co-worker, Bethesda receptionist Ruthann Wolz, overhears her. Ruthann has known Brenda for sometime and, as Ruthann puts it, "she's been thrown a lot of curve balls during her lifetime."
Most of those curve balls, like her cancer treatment, put Brenda in a bad financial position. Going to Guam seemed out of the question.
But Brenda's story touched Ruthann very deeply. So deeply, she decided to cash in her frequent flyer miles to pay for the $14-hundred dollar airfare to Guam and back.
That's the price Ruthann and her Vietnam veteran husband decided to pay to give Brenda a few hours with 23-year-old Blaine who, like his mom, faces an uncertain future.
"We had the miles, Brenda needed to go to Guam to see her son, so that was it," Ruthann said.
