The ambulance crew transporting 6-year-old Jaxon McGee from a hospital in Norman to OU Health University of Oklahoma Medical Center in Oklahoma City made an unexpected detour at the patient’s request — a stop at McDonald’s.
First, he asked mom Natalie McGee, who told him it wasn’t possible. But Jaxon appealed to a higher authority — paramedics Hunter Everett and Steven Yarbrough, who are with EMSSTAT, the hospital-based EMS service.
“There was no way we could say no to that kid,” Steve told The Post. “His face was so happy. Anything we can do to make a kid’s day a little better.”
Hunter added, “I asked the Emergency Department doctors if it was OK to take him to McDonald’s, and they said, ‘Yes, Physicians’ orders!’”
A few minutes later, the goodhearted medics pulled their rig into a nearby McDonald’s and rolled Jaxon inside on the stretcher like royalty.
“We definitely got some crazy looks,” Natalie told The Post. “Jackson was stunned. He kept saying, ‘Are you kidding me? This is not happening!’ He was so happy and excited.”
The moment of joy came during one of the most frightening periods of the family’s life.
Jaxson’s medical ordeal began back on Thanksgiving weekend with a backache. But soon, the pain spread to his legs, and then to his abdomen. And it was intense.
‘He was literally crawling,” said Natalie.
After multiple trips to the emergency room in Norman and days of missed school, his mom was exhausted and desperate.
“I said, ‘help me! We can’t go on like this,’” she recalled.
Docs decided to send the boy to OU Health for a full workup — with a short stop, of course.
There, specialists told Natalie that Jaxon had acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), a disease that primarily effects children.
Docs decided to send the boy to OU Health for a full workup — with a short stop, of course.
“The few minutes I spoke to the doctor seemed like hours,” recalled Natalie, a divorced mom of two, Jaxon and his 3-year-old sister, Madison. “It was like a nightmare,”
Jaxon now undergoes weekly chemotherapy treatments, along with a course of steroids and other medications, and undergoes frequent tests to monitor his progress.
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“He has his days,” said Natalie. “But his teacher has been to our house twice already, and Jaxon is able to keep up with his schoolwork online.”