Mary Oakley, mother of Eve and Ella, shares the heartbreaking journey her family has endured since learning her twin babies both had cancer.
is especially heartbreaking. Mary Oakley and her husband Nathan, of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, are among the few parents out there who know what that experience is truly like. Their 2-year-old twin daughters, Eve and Ella, were diagnosed with retinoblastoma at just 15 days old. And while her daughters are now stable, Mary says her girls areMary tells CafeMom that when doctors first discovered the rare eye cancer, it was only Eve who was diagnosed.
When they checked, the parents got the heartbreaking news that Ella had bilateral retinoblastoma and had one small tumor growing in each of her eyes. Eve was soon diagnosed with the same condition.At the same time, Eve was seen by an ophthalmologist, who recommended that her parents transfer her to the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia to continue her abdominal recovery and begin treatment for her own case of retinoblastoma.
"Eve contacted three infections while on chemotherapy," she says."And she needed countless blood transfusions." "If new tumors arise, they will move onto other treatments," Mary says. Those other treatments could include cryotherapy , radiation laser therapy, or chemotherapy directly into eyes, which is known as IAC.
But that doesn't mean the parents don't worry for the future. Mary says the family still struggles, because they have"no idea what this cancer is going to do ... or when it’s going to come back."
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