#Pregnant With #Cancer: One Woman’s Journey
▻http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2015/02/10/384010384/pregnant-with-cancer-one-womans-journey
After years of debating whether to have a second child, my husband, Mark, and I decided to give it a try. Two weeks later, we found a lump. I was 35.
When the diagnosis of breast cancer was made, we learned how treatment could affect fertility; chemo could jump-start menopause. Doctors wouldn’t feel comfortable letting us try to get pregnant until I’d completed five years of hormone therapy. Even adoption agencies would want to see that I’d achieved five years of post-cancer survival. We quietly gave up on the idea of a sibling for our son, Leo, who was 5.
Then the day before my scheduled lumpectomy, my oncology nurse called with stunning news — routine blood work had uncovered that I was pregnant. (You can listen to our audio diary above.)