Erika added: “When he said we got it all, it was like she was born again”.
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The Jacksonville, FL, mom already had a 2-year-old daughter named Audrey. But as they waited for her health to go downhill, the girl kept growing stronger and stronger.
The Jones family now has hope. After it turned out to be a tumor, doctors weren’t hopeful the baby would survive. The prognosis wasn’t good.
Neurosurgeon-in-Chief Dr. Alan Cohen and his team operated on Abigail and removed the tumor. After preemptively planning Abigail’s funeral, the Jones’s are now celebrating every day after a surgeon in Boston pulled off a miraculous surgery that left their baby tumor-free.
But Abigail thrived, her parents said. “We prayed for her to be healed and nevertheless that works out, God will get the glory for it”.
An emotional, yet attractive photo shoot that followed captured the hearts of people around the nation. Mary Huszcza, of 8.08 Photography took several stunning images that spread through social media.
The 2-month-old, born with Down syndrome, was diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor while still in the womb, and doctors said it would’ve been too risky to operate, according to a Facebook post. ‘[The Jones family] contacted Boston Children’s Hospital and Mark Kieran, chief of neuro-oncology, and I reviewed the MRI and thought the tumor actually might not be malignant’. “After being told that in addition to the tumor being deadly with the risk of operation outweighing the likely benefits the Jones” were also informed that chemotherapy would also cause the death of their infant due to her age.
The surgery last Thursday morning was successful. Stable and comfortable. Hopefully out of PICU later this afternoon.
“Such an incredible, surreal feeling walking out of the hospital with Abigail”.
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