Mother Postpones Cancer Treatment To Give Baby Life
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Lorraine Allard of St. Olaves, U.K. is as selfless as they come. According to Fox News, while expecting her fourth child Allard learned that she had advanced liver cancer.
Allard’s choices were either to delay treatment of the cancer, which would save her baby, or end her pregnancy, saving herself. She chose to save her baby and, therefore, possibly lose her own life.
“If I am going to die, my baby is going to live,” Allard told her husband, Martyn.
A week early, on November 18th, Allard gave birth to a healthy baby boy named Liam.
Doctors said they were unable to do anything for the cancer because Allard was pregnant. They believe she had bowel cancer which, gone undetected, had spread to her liver. Allard was suffering from stomach cramping when the cancer was discovered. Doctors then found that her liver was taken over by malignant tumors.
Sadly, only two months after Liam’s birth, Allard lost her battle with liver cancer. She had begun chemotherapy after her son’s birth, but it was too late to rid her body of the cancer.
Lorraine Allard was able to hold her newborn son several times before she died. Liam is the Allard’s only boy. Their other children are Leah, 10; Amy, 8; and Courtney, 20 months.
Allard’s husband says, “Towards the end we knew things weren’t going well, but she was overjoyed that she had given life to Liam.”
Allard was only 33 years old.
I think if I was placed in the same situation as Lorraine Allard I would have taken the same path. I would do anything for my children and being a mother means lots of little sacrifices and sometimes huge ones as well. Judging by this mom’s humble actions I’m sure she’d say that she was just doing what she should as a mother. Times like these make all of us truly proud to be mothers.
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Science-mom says...
sad but heartwarming story. I hope the father gets all the support he gets to take care of those kids.
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joanne says...
i would just like to say that my sister was the best ever can not beleive how her story has spread even to the states and all the lovely comments people have made about her ,her husband martin is the best there is !!
the chilrdren have a got a great dad to raise them and a fantastic famliy to support him
we are very proud of him for giving my sister the love and support she needed at this very sad time
i can honestly say the world would be a better place if there were more like him
it is a honour to have as a family member
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Michael says...
Joanne,
Please pass along my thoughts and prayers to your whole family. I commented in a related article at the “dailymail.co.uk” (not sure it will get added). Anyway, if you have net seen it, see a DVD called, “Love is a Choice,” (availble at Amazon.com). It is a story very similar ot your sister’s of St. Gianna Beretta Molla who made a similar choice during her fourth pregnancy in 1961. I thought of it immediately after seeing your sister’s story. May God bless all of you and give you strength.
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