Posted by
Jason on Saturday, January 26, 2008 11:00:23 PM
Here's a deeply moving story of a very courageous woman:
A mother made the ultimate sacrfice by refusing cancer treatment to give birth to a healthy baby boy.
Lorraine Allard was told four months into the pregnancy the devastating news that she was in the advanced stages of cancer.
A further blow came when doctors advised her to terminate the foetus, which was 23 weeks old, and start chemotherapy straight away.
Instead, she insisted on waiting long enough to give her unborn son a chance to survive, telling her husband, Martyn: "If I am going to die, my baby is going to live."
Liam is recovering well, though Lorraine has passed away. Is there any more beautiful story than a parent forsaking his or her own life for a child? It is one I will be telling for a long time...
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