Source: CVDaily Feed
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One Wish came through again when Cache Valley resident Antonio Davila boarded a Labor Day flight with his family in order to return to his native Mexico to die.
One Wish is a Cache Valley organization that grants wishes to terminally ill patients.
“We admitted Antonio to our hospice service on August 14,” said Michael Morrison, manager of Intermountain Home Care and Hospice. During the admission process my hospice nurse Gabby Carter and my social worker Shannon Rhoades heard of his desire to return to his home in Mexico because there were family members he wanted to see before he passed away.”
Morrison said Rhoades contacted One Wish and shared Antonio Davila’s story. Within a couple of days One Wish representatives contacted Shannon.
“They told us they were able to not only pay for Mr. Davila’s air fare to Mexico but also his wife and son’s. The son, Antonio, will be returning to Cache Valley in about a month.”
Morrison said up until that time the Davila’s were conducting yard sales and various fund raisers. They will be able to use that money to purchase medical equipment Davila will need in Mexico.
“Antonio is oxygen-dependent so we had to line up a portable oxygen concentrator for the plane ride and for his use in Mexico,” said Morrison. “James Foutz, the manager of Intermountain’s durable medical equipment donated a full size concentrator to be used in the Davila’s home in Mexico and he was also gracious enough to let us borrow a portable concentrator for the plane ride that Antonio, his son, will return in about a month.”
Morrison said it was a team effort to get the Davila family cared for.
“Hospice is for cases like this. It is to help terminally ill individuals live out the time that they have in comfort and in a way that is pain-free.”