Mom Kelly Heather (38) who is She had been troubled with cancer for several years, doctors said she managed to overcome her. At the 35th week of pregnancy, however reported a overwhelming message, and its disease has spread to several parts of the body. , a woman is now worried that cancer has spread to her baby.
First appeared on the nail
Kelly for the first time visited a doctor in 2017 after noticing an unusual line on the nail. At first he told her that he had no cancer cells there, but it was monitored every three months. Later, however The line began to darken and coarse, and therefore went again to the doctor who diagnosed her melanoma, a type of skin cancer.
Kelly si had the nail bed removed, while the surgeons claimed that the operation went well and no cancer left in it. But within six months, something that looked like a wart appeared at the end of the finger. It signaled that the cancer returned. “Whatever you need, take it. Better how it should be expanded somewhere else,” the woman explained with the fact that she had removed her finger end in March 2020.
Mom She asked for further examination to make sure no cancer cells remain in it. The hospital finally described her disease as unpopulated, which refused further treatment. In August 2022, however, Kelly discovered a lump in the armpit. It meant that she was The disease has returned again and spread to the lymphatic system.
Kelly was forced undergo a large -scale surgery in which 20 lymph nodes have been removed. She learned that only one of them is a metastatic malignant melanoma, a type of skin cancer that has spread to another part of the body. In October 2023, after a year of annual immunotherapy Again, doctors have confirmed that they do not have a tumor within them. It was therefore included in remission, two weeks later she found that she was pregnant.
Cancer has moved to the brain
Although her pregnancy was initially trouble -free, at the 35th week found that she couldn’t properly lift the left leg. “I started to shake my uncontrollably and Not even in a minute I had a complete seizure in the kitchen. I honestly thought I’d die, “she said.
Mom was a diagnosed brain tumor that was later confirmed as a brain melanoma at 4. The stage. “I tried to enforce further examinations but I was told that you don’t need. Now I’m In a situation where I am afraid to leave my kids without mum. “explained Kelly. She gave birth to her fourth child Te-Jaya 9 December by Caesarean section AO less than 10 days later underwent a brain surgery to remove the tumor. “They couldn’t remove it all without causing me a permanent paralysis of the left side of the body,” she added.
As Kelly has to take care of the newborn, starts a new treatment that includes two separate immunotherapeutic drugs. Doctors also told her that there is a 25 % probability of spreading cancer to her baby through the placenta. “It’s just another worry. No mother would ever want to think that she could spread cancer to her baby,” she revealed.
However, he believes that Her cancer, which is now at the 4th stage, could be revealed earlier. “I am promoting that more tests do no matter what stage you are. I wonder What would it happen if I got the one scan that I begged so much. I feel like I might have been in a different situation than I am now“she said.
