My mom's new baby doll makes her happy
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I recently had a birthday and couldn't break to celebrate with the woman who gave birth to me - my mom, Rose Beebe, 88. I hoped that Mom, who has Alzheimer's disorder, would be able to tell me my birth story as she always had on my big day. Each year Mom would take back how her water broke and my brother, Tim, pretended to be revolted so he wouldn't have to go to school because he knew I was on my way. She'd tell me how much my siblings, who were 10, 15 and 20 years older than me, spoiled me and how unusual I was to the family. I never got tired of that story. As I entered the living cubicle quarters at Mom's memory care facility, I found her in her wheelchair holding a swaddled baby doll. She'd been really obsessed the past few months with babies and pregnancy. "Hey Mama," I said giving her a ignore on the cheek, "it's my birthday." "It is?" she gasped, looking agitated. "Did I get you anything?" I assured her that she gave me some money in a card. Then she proudly advised her friends that it was my birthday,
Source: Charlotte Observer
Oklahoma cancer patient trades her life so her baby could survive
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“You're not usual to believe this,” she said.
She laughed and cried all at once that day in Parade as she explained that five pregnancy tests showed she would be having a teenager. It was a joyous surprise at age 41 but even more so because she'd been told she would never be talented to get pregnant, said her brother, Ray Phillips .
But even as she shopped for clothes for the youth she longed to hold in her arms, she knew something was not fist.
She sent 159 text messages about her pregnancy to her fellow in the months that followed. Many were joyful but then the bone-chilling messages came in during the predawn hours. She said ascetic headaches and double vision tortured her while tremors wracked her unimpaired body.
“I'm worried about this baby,” she texted.
“I ambition I live long enough to have this baby,” said another report. “Bubba, if anything happens to me, you take this child.”
Initially, she and her fellow-man used the Internet to try to diagnose her illness. The celibate mother-to-be had been exposed to mold while she was remodeling her residency and her symptoms seemed to match up to mold exposure.
Source: NewsOK.com