Kate Crawford. It is probably an unknown name to many people. Now, This is a woman who has fought for her life more than anyone else, raising a family and never losing her smile.. A story of overcoming in capital letters that has gone around the world and has revolutionized social networks.
Beginnings
It all started when I was the mother of three children – all under 3 years old -, at the age of 26, when I was suffering constant pain head and stomach. She even went to the emergency room once with very acute back pain, but they told her that motherhood was like that. That is to say, it was part of the process and something completely normal.
However, she did not remain calm and shortly afterward performed a breast self-examination. That’s when the worst news arrived for her and those around her: she was diagnosed stage 4 cancer at 28 years old and they told him that he had two years to live. Everything went up in the air. Normal, of course.
Your most important support: family
Six months ago, Crawford was receiving her 200th cancer treatment and had the strength to share her story to inspire the rest of the world. While raising her children, she struggled with courage y courage against the disease for 13 years. It is said soon.
“It wasn’t easy getting pregnant. My first daughter, Shannon, died when she was 3 days old. Shannon changed my life. Together, we face death. She died in my arms. “I’m afraid, but I’m not afraid, and it’s all because of her,” he told the magazine ‘People‘.
After his daughter’s death, he promised that he would not go through this again, if it happened again.. But fate had something in store for her: she suffered a miscarriage at the beginning of the second trimester. Five months later, Kate found out she was having twin daughters, Grace and Lily. c
But, for every positive news, a very negative one. Your son, Stephen Jr.was born approximately eight weeks premature and received seven different therapies, five days a week. He was diagnosed with a type of cerebral palsy. And they had to cut her from below her chest to her pelvis, operate on her bladder and perform a hysterectomy. Next to nothing.
Happy ending
Hence, as soon as he started to feel bad, he wanted to attribute it to the set of factors mentioned above. However, the pain worsened and she had to have a mammogram. Although I didn’t think it was anything worrying, The results were bad and they requested a biopsy.
And on her husband’s 41st birthday, Crawford was told she had breast cancer. She started chemotherapy in 2013, when he was 28 years old, going weekly for a year and a half. According to the initial diagnosis, He had between 18 and 24 months left. But time increased and today, Kate has been fighting the disease for thirteen years..
“This life is so beautiful, and I can’t believe they have given me the opportunity to be in this world and live it,” he said in the aforementioned media. And he is watching his children grow up, enjoying every minute of his family and trying to achieve all his goals.
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