Her parents said they plan to have a big party for her when they get home to Florida. Now nine weeks old, Abigail has a bright future ahead of her thanks to a second opinion in Boston that led to a second chance at life.
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“She is the chillest baby ever”, her mother, Erika Jones, told ABC News in September.
During her 30 week ultrasound, doctors spotted something unusual on Erika Jones’s baby’s brain.
And while her tumor was in fact still large and present, the baby girl – who was also born with Down syndrome, also diagnosed before her birth – continued to grow and develop. “We were telling people and people just couldn’t believe it”, Stephen says.
“We knew little Abby’s life had a goal, no matter how long or short it was”, Erika wrote in a blog post on Mary’s website. He defined to the household that typically tumors might look malignant however end up to not be. “They told us that this was one of 3 types of tumor, all aggressive, cancerous, and fatal”. The Jones planned a funeral and even took family photos, but then something happened: baby Abigail got better, not worse.
Abigail was discharged from Boston Children’s Hospital on Monday, but the family will remain in Boston for a few days for follow-up care.
Last week, the Jones family traveled to Boston.
Abigail is doing extremely well and should be heading home to Florida soon. “We repeated an MRI, which again made me suspicious that the tumor was not, in fact, malignant”.
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Neurosurgeon-in-Chief Dr. Alan Cohen and his team operated on Abigail and removed the tumor. We have a follow up MRI on Thursday and flying back to Jacksonville Sarurday morning.
