United Airlines flight attendant Jo Reinhardt worked her last
flight Dec. 18, 2002.  It was a Boeing 757, flying from Denver
to Seattle, loaded with passengers, even though the airline had
filed bankruptcy.  "I can't describe to you how much I loved my
job," Reinhardt said. "I always got to work early because I was
so excited to be there."  She'd worked at United for 18 years.
She was a personable woman who'd once served Joe DiMaggio on a
flight.  She married at age 40, got pregnant on her honeymoon
and was on her maternity leave when she got the news.  The
cheerful flight attendant who had Joe DiMaggio's autograph also
had Lou Gehrig's disease. She had a new husband, a new baby and
a new diagnosis that promised her only months to live. "They
said this will be your first Christmas with Jacob. Plan on it
being your last," she said.  Somehow, Reinhardt outlived this
diagnosis. At 45, she is now paralyzed from the neck down and
requires a respirator to breathe. But when I called her at her
home in Indianola, Was