Liên had to sit up during the C-section process. – Photo tuoitre.com.vn HÀ NỘI – On the morning of May 22, Nguyễn Thị Liên, 28, sat on her bed at K Hospital in Hà Nội surrounded by medical equipment awaiting surgery that afternoon. Looking pale in green hospital clothes, she breathed heavily. Doctors were going to conduct a C-section to save her 31-week-old baby. When she was eight weeks pregnant, she found lumps on her breast. Thinking it was a normal sign of pregnancy, Liên didn’t go for a check up. As more lumps started to appear on her body, Liên became constantly tired and started coughing more and more. When she was 22 weeks pregnant, doctors at K hospital told her something all women fear: she had last-stage breast cancer. The choice she was given was stark – either terminate the pregnancy to start her cancer treatment and increase her chance of survival, or carry her son to term and battle the excruciating disease with minimal treatment. Without thinking twice, Liên said she wanted to keep the baby. After that, Liên was given two cycles of chemotherapy. Six weeks later, she developed more breathing problems. Liên was hospitalised in intensive care – where she was only able to sit up all the time. Her baby was getting so big she wouldn’t have been able to breath if she lay down. She was in constant pain and her immune system was falling significantly day by day. Hùng, her husband, got her a small laptop table so she can put it on her… [Read full story]
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