Wow: if this doesn't touch your heart then you have no soul. Mother forgoes cancer treatment to save unborn child.
She sent 159 text messages about her pregnancy to her brother in the months that followed. Many were joyful but then the bone-chilling messages came in during the predawn hours. She said severe headaches and double vision tortured her while tremors wracked her entire body."I'm worried about this baby," she texted.
"I hope I live long enough to have this baby," said another message. "Bubba, if anything happens to me, you take this child." ...
At her family's encouragement, she visited a number of doctors. In July, a CT scan revealed that she had head and neck cancer.
Now she had to choose between her life and her baby's life. Phillips said she agonized only for a while before deciding against taking potentially lifesaving chemotherapy in hopes that she would soon hold a healthy baby in her arms.
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(HT: Townhall.)
