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Missouri Mother With Cancer Who Chose Baby Over Treatment Dies After Giving Birth
KTLA ^

Posted on 12/09/2015 8:40:36 AM PST by BenLurkin

Cara Combs found out she had cancer while she was 23 weeks pregnant.

Her doctors advised her to have the baby immediately, but Combs, 38, wanted to wait to give the child a chance to survive. The decision meant postponing cancer treatment.

"I can't begin treatment while pregnant so I have some tough decisions to make. Against the advice of my oncologist, I am choosing to delay my treatment for three weeks in order to get the baby to 28 weeks," she wrote in a Facebook status update from Nov. 13. "There is no good decision here. We will both be fighting for our lives and I feel incredibly guiltily about that."

Combs explained her dermatologist hadn't found anything concerning when she saw her last year. Her oncologist couldn't find the source of the cancer, she wrote.

"At 38 you don't expect to find out that you are dying. It definitely puts things into perspective," she wrote in the post.

Combs went into labor on Dec. 5, the day after family photographs were taken, according to Emily Lucarz, who shot the pictures.

(Excerpt) Read more at ktla.com ...


TOPICS: Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: moralabsolutes
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1 posted on 12/09/2015 8:40:36 AM PST by BenLurkin
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A hero. What a tragedy, but what an example.


2 posted on 12/09/2015 8:42:30 AM PST by jagusafr
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To: BenLurkin

Three weeks? Man, that was some aggressive cancer.

God Bless Her. (I’ll be He already has!)


3 posted on 12/09/2015 8:43:34 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set...)
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To: BenLurkin
There is no good decision here.

Very true.

However, I think she made the best possible decision. She gave her baby a chance.

4 posted on 12/09/2015 8:43:51 AM PST by ShadowAce (Linux - The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
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To: BenLurkin

God love her

I’m awed


5 posted on 12/09/2015 8:43:57 AM PST by wardaddy (Save western civilization and save the world....lose it & it's a dark ages unknown to human history)
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To: BenLurkin

What a courageous and love-filled lady.

May she find everlasting life, happiness and peace in the loving arms of the Lord.


6 posted on 12/09/2015 8:48:40 AM PST by smoothsailing
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

My prayers for her sainthood.


7 posted on 12/09/2015 8:49:06 AM PST by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: BenLurkin

Heartbreaking & melenoma was the cancer that spread to liver.
So sad..


8 posted on 12/09/2015 8:49:21 AM PST by rainee (Her)
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To: BenLurkin

Meanwhile, hundreds of babies are murdered every day by abortion.

This woman deserves sainthood!


9 posted on 12/09/2015 8:50:23 AM PST by fantail 1952 ( So long, America! It's been great while it lasted.)
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To: BenLurkin

“There is no good decision here.”

Yes, there is - the only one: LIFE.


10 posted on 12/09/2015 8:54:59 AM PST by vladimir998 (Apparently I'm still living in your head rent free. At least now it isn't empty.)
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To: BenLurkin
She died five weeks (or so) after the diagnosis?

There is not treatment existent that would have saved her. She made the only decision any reasonable person would make.

11 posted on 12/09/2015 8:59:43 AM PST by Michael.SF. (This tagline lists all of Hilary's accomplishments............................)
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To: BenLurkin

STRAIGHT TO HEAVEN!!!! God Bless her!!!


12 posted on 12/09/2015 9:00:20 AM PST by Ann Archy (ABORTION....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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Her voice is joined before the thrown of God with the Heavenly host. Her baby was more important than he own life.


13 posted on 12/09/2015 9:05:24 AM PST by Forward the Light Brigade (Into the Jaws of H*ll Onward! Ride to the sound of the guns!)
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To: BenLurkin

No greater love....


14 posted on 12/09/2015 9:05:50 AM PST by DCBryan1 (No realli, moose bytes can be quite nasti!!)
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To: BenLurkin

This was the ultimate Pro Choice decision that wouldn’t be remotely suggested by Planned Parenthood. God bless her and my sincere condolences to her family.


15 posted on 12/09/2015 9:05:55 AM PST by immadashell (The inmates are running the asylum)
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To: Forward the Light Brigade

Amen!!!


16 posted on 12/09/2015 9:15:23 AM PST by Ann Archy (ABORTION....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Michael.SF.

Pray for her, and her family. A very brave woman.


17 posted on 12/09/2015 9:46:14 AM PST by phormer phrog phlyer
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To: BenLurkin

Her doctors killed her, they know darn well that Essiac Tea and B17 would have worked, but if they can’t make a fortune using chemotherapy, radiation or disfiguring surgery they would rather you die.


18 posted on 12/09/2015 9:47:12 AM PST by The_Republic_Of_Maine (politicians beware)
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To: phormer phrog phlyer

WE should ask her to pray for us, instead.


19 posted on 12/09/2015 9:59:19 AM PST by 353FMG
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To: BenLurkin

Another angel in heaven.


20 posted on 12/09/2015 10:10:11 AM PST by DPMD
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