For most of us, finding out you're expecting a baby is a magical and unforgettable moment. But for Stacie Crimm, the news was especially bittersweet.
At 41, she had given up on the hope that she would ever bear a child. She even took five pregnancy tests just to be sure. Then she texted the happy news to her brother, Ray Phillips.
From there everything went downhill for the single mom from Oklahoma City. In the months following her conception, Crimm started getting severe headaches, seeing double. Tremors shook her entire body.
Worried that something was wrong with her baby, she saw a doctor and received devastating news: she had head and neck cancer.
While chemotherapy could potentially help kick cancer, Crimm refused, knowing it would also take the life of her unborn child. Eventually she was rushed to OU Medical Center in Oklahoma City, where doctors performed a C-section to deliver the baby.
Weighing just 2lbs 1oz , Dottie May was born. Just 3 weeks later, having held her baby daughter once, Crimm died.
Ray Phillips and his wife are fulfilling his sister's dying wish by bringing Dottie May home to live with them.
Can you even imagine making such an incredible sacrifice, as Stacie Crimm did? Was it the right thing to do?
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