She came to Alaska on the ‘cruise of a lifetime.’ Now she’s terminally ill and stuck in Anchorage.

Nancy, 71, has been at St. Elias Specialty Hospital in Midtown Anchorage for two months, mostly in bed, unable to even go in a wheelchair outside to smell the peonies in the yard without a medical escort beside her. She has been diagnosed with terminal cancer, along with an autoimmune disease flare-up that nearly killed her on the cruise ship.