A mother in the US had made the ultimate sacrifice, giving her life so she could have a baby.When New York City cancer patient Elizabeth Joice was told that she had become pregnant against the odds last year she was overjoyed, the New York Post reports.
But her happiness was shortlived as doctors told her that she would have to terminate the pregnancy to begin treatment.
The 36-year-old, who grew up without a mother of her own, did not hesitate when making the decision, her husband Max said.
“Having a kid was one of the most important things in the world to her,” he said.
“She said, ‘If we terminate the pregnancy and it turns out I can’t have a baby [later], I’ll be devastated’. She knew this might be her only chance.”
The couple had been together for two years in September 2010 when Ms Joice was first diagnosed with cancer.
In an interview posted online last year Ms Joice, who was in remission at the time, described how her husband proposed to her using a tin foil ring moments after learning she had been diagnosed with cancer.
She said she put on her boxing gloves and pounded her wall after receiving the life-changing phone call and was surprised to see her boyfriend had gone to the kitchen.
“I thought this is probably the worst time in the world for you to get food,” Ms Joice said.
“Then he came out and he got down on one knee and he handed me this amazing ring that he had fashioned in 45 seconds in the kitchen and he said to me ‘you don’t have a choice. I wanted you to be my family. I need you to be my family and you have to fight so that we can have this life together’.”
After four rounds of chemotherapy and surgery the tumour was removed and Ms Joice was free of cancer for three years, during which time she became pregnant.
“I totally blew a gasket,” Mr Joice said.
“They said there was no chance this was happening and here it was happening.”
But the couple came crashing back to earth when only a month into her pregnancy the cancer returned.
Being pregnant the mother was unable to undergo full-body MRI scans and doctors were unable to discover if the cancer had spread.
But Ms Joice never considered giving up the baby and her health declined steadily, forcing doctors to deliver the baby, who was due on March 4, by Caesarean in January.
“We said our goodbyes,” Max said.
“It was like something out of a movie. We sat there and cried. We tried to tell stories, talk about all the great things.
“Liz came home five days after Lily was born,” Max said.
“That one night at home was all we had.”
Ms Joice died on March 9 in hospital with her husband by her side.
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