Wish-iversary: Wish Kid, groups thank local medical workers
Cancer survivor and Make-A-Wish New Mexico “wish kid” Sam Neale, right, serves doughnuts to Presbyterian Rust Medical Center health-care workers Thursday morning outside the hospital’s main entrance. Make-A-Wish, the Jennifer Riordan Foundation and the Neale family provided coffee and doughnuts at three area hospitals to thank medical workers and celebrate World Wish Day. Argen Marie Duncan photo.
A year ago, an area teenager received his wish to give back to health-care workers during the COVID-19 pandemic, and he gave back again last week.
Thursday, on the anniversary of that wish granted by Make-A-Wish New Mexico, Albuquerque cancer survivor Sam Neale, now 18, served coffee and doughnuts to 250 employees at each of the three hospitals where he dropped off decontamination kits last year. Presbyterian Rust Medical Center was one of those facilities, along with the University of New Mexico Hospital and Lovelace Hospital in downtown Albuquerque.