After rare cancer leads to hysterectomy, woman's twin carries her baby
. She immediately began treatment with an oncologist. But, being diagnosed with cancer in her 30s brought back memories of her father, who died of leukemia in his 30s when the twins were just 4.
“Cancer has touched our lives at a young age. He was diagnosed in his 30s as well,” Sharp said. “Cancer has always been a discussion in our family.”Sharp underwent surgery and then began oral chemotherapy treatment, but she had to switch to intravenous chemotherapy because the first drug wasn’t working.
“It was five chemotherapy drugs where I was overnight in the hospital. That was pretty tough,” she said. “I did that for about six months and I was actually pronounced cancer-free.”“That’s what led me to do more rounds of chemo and a hysterectomy,” Sharp said. When Sharp had her first surgery, doctors mentioned that they might need to remove Sharp’s uterus in the future. At the time, Stoner said she’d be a“I jokingly said, ‘It’s OK, I’ll have your babies.’ And we laughed about it,” Stoner, 33, a dietitian in Franklin, Tennessee, toldSharp didn’t think her sister was making a serious offer.
“In the moment it was comic relief and I thought to myself, ‘How wild would that be?’” Sharp recalled. “She’s always had a really generous, serving heart so I knew it was coming from a deep genuine place.”Courtesy Katelyn Brown Photography“When it got really serious, we were just hoping Sarah was going to be OK. It was really gut-wrenching and hard,” Stoner said. “Before she had her hysterectomy, my husband and I had another conversation about offering to help them in this way if it worked out.
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