After a major insurance company denied coverage for a medical flight that could save her daughter’s life, Alexandria McMahon took the story to social media and caught the attention of billionaire Mark Cuban.
Stella McMahon was diagnosed with T-cell leukemia at just four months old. Now, a year later to the day, she’s been fighting relentless fevers above 104 degrees for nearly a month; her liver’s overtaxed, and her body’s too immunocompromised to ward off a virus on its own. The cruel irony of Stella’s condition: because she has T-cell leukemia, her doctors at Children’s Minnesota had successfully eradicated her T-cells, the very cells she needed to fight the virus now threatening her life.
