The Daily Mail is reporting on the story of Daniella Jackson, who was in her second trimester when she began to having breathing problems. While on a camping trip with the father of her baby, she became ill and was taken to a nearby hospital. Doctors at first thought she had a blood clot but a CT scan revealed a four centimeter tumor in her lung.
Doctors immediately recommended an abortion so they could begin to treat her, but she refused.
"Abortion is not part of my belief as a Catholic," Daniella told the Mail. "Religion was part of my decision. I wanted to fight for my baby."
At that point in the pregnancy, she already felt too bonded to the child. "I felt such a close bond with her, I couldn’t let her go."
The next few months were difficult for her. "I felt like a ticking timebomb. I had nightmares about dying in labour. It was a bad time, my head was all over the place. I just shut down and tried to get through as best as I could."
As her due date drew near, she was having daily asthma attacks, but was able to carry her child nearly to term.
Baby Rennae was delivered four weeks early, weighing a healthy six pounds, three ounces.
Four weeks later, she received the life-saving operation that removed the tumor along with half of her lung, and is now cancer-free.
"I’m just so thankful I have a future with my children and I’m surviving." � © All Rights Reserved, Living His Life Abundantly®/Women of Grace® http://www.womenofgrace.com
Photo of Danielle and Rennae by Caters
