Flight Story #1286
Saskatoon, SK > Vancouver, BC – $793.23 CAD
Michelle never imagined her mother’s final chapter would come so quickly. When the diagnosis came, it was devastating aggressive, metastatic small cell cancer. The disease had already spread to her brain, bones, and lymph nodes. Tumors that doubled in size in just six months. When her mom moved to Vancouver this March, it was meant to bring her closer to treatment, but her disease was moving fast. When her mother started having issues with memory, balance, and even seizures, Michelle knew she had to take action.
Now, Michelle is preparing to fly from Saskatoon to Vancouver — not for a visit, but to stay as long as she’s needed. She’s taken a six-month compassionate care leave, stepping away from work and her family of four, to be her mom’s primary support in this final journey.
Michelle knows time is running out, and she wants to be by her mother’s side — not just as a caregiver, but as a daughter who, despite a complicated past, wants to offer love, healing, and closure.
I love my mom. Maybe this sacrifice of being away from my family and assisting with her final months will help me heal from the past, show her my love, and help us both find closure, so she doesn’t have to have it in her mind when she passes, and I can also find comfort in that so I can continue on in a healthy way.
Michelle
Flight Recipient
But flights are expensive. After already visiting her mother earlier in the year, and with her compassionate care benefit reducing her income, she has no money left for another flight.
Without great sponsors like Lexus On The Park, and donations from the community, stories like this wouldn’t happen.
Because of Lexus On The Park’s generosity, Michelle was able to board that plane. She will stay with her mother until she’s no longer needed, offering comfort, love, and presence every step of the way.
“This means so much, I can’t express my gratitude” – Michelle