Mom With Cancer Sacrifices Her Life to Deliver Babe Girl

Cara Combs was diagnosed with stage IV of melanoma on November 2 when she was carrying a 23 weeks old pregnancy. According to her doctor Cara had to start cancer treatments right away but they would affect the babe so she needs to either deliver the babe early and commence treatment or sacrifice babe's life and commence treatments right away. However the doctor told her the babe will have 90 percent of surviving if she deliver at 28 weeks.

Cara posted the above post on her Facebook page six days later after deciding to put her babe's life first before hers. She said the plan was to deliver the babe at 28 weeks in December 7 then she will begin her own treatments, she may even travel to Texas to get further treatments there.

Baby Shaylin was born on December 5 and Cara husband Emily Lucarz shared the picture of her with other three siblings.

 

 

Unfortunately on December 8 Lucarz updated his Facebook status with Cara's death news. 

 

Cara's sister-in-law, Michelle Combs Gerdin, felt the need to create a timeline of events, and in a Facebook comment on Lucarz’s page on Dec. 9, she clarified that Cara was due to travel to MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston on Dec. 10 “to start immunotherapy to fight the monster that was taking over her body… She figured it would take a few days to recover from giving birth and then start treatments shortly thereafter.” Gerdin added that Cara imagined these treatments “would give her time with Shay. Time with my brother. Time with her three other precious children.” 

But Cara wound up needing a liver transplant after Shay was born, according to Gerdin’s post, and because of her cancer she was not a candidate. She never returned from the ICU. “God had other plans as Cara gained her angel wings yesterday just a few days after giving birth,” Gerdin wrote.

What a brave woman, may her soul Rest In Peace.