It was truly an inspiring story, but one that ended on a very sad note this week.? Jenni Lake, the courageous Idaho Teen who stopped her cancer treatments in order to avoid terminating her pregnancy, died 12 days after giving birth to a very healthy baby boy.? This is her story.
Jenni Lake was a happy go lucky teenager until the migraines started.? She was 16 and a sophomore at?Pocatello High School when she went to Salt Lake City for an MRI.? The scan revealed a two centimeter mass on her brain. ? Jenni had a biopsy and soon after she was diagnosed with stage three astrocytoma. She had three tumors on her brain and three on her spine.? She had to start chemo and radiation immediately and even with both the doctors gave her a 30% chance of living two years.
She was also told there was a good chance that even if the cancer treatments did work she would be left sterile, with no chance of ever getting pregnant.? She had a boyfriend at the time, Nathan Wittman, and he stuck with her through all the treatments all the issues and he even took her to the prom the following year.? At that point her treatments were shrinking the tumors and it seemed as if she may get through it.
Then she woke up one morning in pain, her stomach was wrenching and she needed to go to the hospital.? What she found out was she was pregnant.? Her and her boyfriend hadn?t worried about protection because they were told she couldn?t conceive anyway.
The Oncologist told her that her treatment regimen could not be given to a pregnant woman, she had two options.
1. Get an abortion and continue her treatments
2. Keep the pregnancy but stop the treatments.
Jenni relaized that it was going to be option 2.? She was going to give life to her baby, and then hopefully continue the treatments after she gave birth.
In the end though, Jenni only weighed 108 pounds when she gave birth a few weeks ago.? Her cancer had come back with a fury and she new that it wasn?t going to get better.? She had the baby 12 days ago and on the day she delivered, she told the nurse ??I?m done, I did what I was supposed to. My baby is going to get here safe,?? said Diana Phillips, Jenni?s mother.
She named the baby Chad Michael.? Then she died 12 days later.
What decision would you have made in Jenni Lake?s Shoes?
Source: http://www.inquisitr.com/173006/jenn-lake-lost-her-fight-with-cancer-but-gave-her-son-life/
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