Posted on 09/14/2007 7:58:44 AM PDT by NYer
A MELBOURNE GP refused high-level chemotherapy, ultimately sacrificing her life to save her unborn daughter.
Family and friends farewelled Dr Ellice Hammond, 37, at a funeral service yesterday, the same day anti-solarium campaigner Clare Oliver succumbed to melanoma.
Dr Hammond lost her battle with Hodgkin's lymphoma on Sunday, three weeks after daughter Mia Ellice was born nine weeks prematurely at the Monash Medical Centre, where she remains in neonatal intensive care, The Herald Sun said today.
Dr Hammond was diagnosed in the 22nd week of pregnancy and refused high-level chemotherapy that could have saved her but might have killed Mia, whose induced birth took place on August 20.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.com.au ...
I’ve been here a couple years and haven’t run into that—I’ll keep an eye open now though! Bygones.
I wasn’t attacking you. I just wanted to come to the defense of all the wonderful moms out there, including my mom. She was willing to give her life so my little sister, Heidi, could be born. Her doctor recommended an abortion. She refused.
Bygones. Kudos to your mom for saving your sister’s life! :*)
Indeed there are some great heroines in this country, and they rarely make the news. My dear friend T died of Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma. She was diagnosed while pregnant but had no treatment for it until they took her baby a month or so prematurely. It didn’t make the news, but most acts of great sacrifice and love do not.
“Wow, that’s a Mom.”
And American feminists are going “what a fool”.
God bless and accept the women into His arms....and bless that family.
No problem, I share your frustration at the callous regard for life in this country. News stories like this one lifts me up and gives me hope.
Here’s a link to another great story. Maybe you remember it.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1832887/posts
No greater love.....she puts many mothers completely to shame. Prayers for all of them
Straight to Heaven. God bless her family.
That’s the face of immortal happiness; know it, learn it, live it.
Thanks for the help.
I wondered why Ms. Oliver was brought into this story at all, and I thought maybe “solariums” had something to do with the mother’s death of Hodgkin’s Disease. It seems not.
Not to sidetrack anyone from a thread about a beautiful woman who gave her life for her child but to respond to your comment.
Over the years there have been many threads about getting brides from Russia and Asia because they are so much better than brides from the USA. Actually some freepers have founds their foreign wives through the internet and are very very happy. Others are just lonely guys who are angry at American women. LOL
Interesting. We have the same birthday (different years) and when I delivered my daughter (natural frank breech) I declined all pain medications. In another time we might have been friends! Thanks for the link.
I think I am missing something. I read the article. Why was the bold information included in the story about this Mother? Had both women been in the news?
God says, “There is no greater sacrifice than to lay down one’s life for one’s friends”. She made the ultimate sacrifice for her child. I pray for the strength to do the same thing for my child when I become a mother if the situation arises. Prayers for her and her surviving husband and daughter.
There are plenty of Australian women who would have had an abortion as well in the circumstances.
Yes, they had been - Clare Oliver far more than the other woman, in fact.
Clare’s courageous fight against her melanoma was a major news story and very impressive, as were her attempts to warn other people of the dangers she believed existed, whether you accepted her thesis regarding the cause of her cancer or not.
And her death was a major news story - even the Prime Minister commented on it.
WHAT LOVE! WHAT STRENGTH! May God’s hand rest forever upon Mia and her daddy!
Thank You very much. It makes sense now.
Hell, just try to get American women on THIS forum to admit all abortions in this country are caused by women and your comment doesn't look nearly as sarcastic as you think it does.
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