Dying mother follows God, chooses life
Oklahoma woman dies from cancer after giving birth.
An Oklahoma mother has made the ultimate sacrifice for her baby. Stacy Crimm, a 41 year old single mother, was diagnosed with terminal head and neck cancer just months after learning she was pregnant. Given the choice between chemotherapy and the life of her child, she chose life.
The miracle baby, Dottie Mae. 'Thank you mom, for choosing life!'
PrintCrimm had been led to believe by her doctors, that she would never be able to have a child and that she was incapable of conception. Proving that miracles do happen, Crimm conceived a baby late last year.
Unfortunately, the joy of pregnancy succumbed to the horror of cancer within weeks. The cancer was fast-moving and painful. Crimm suffered with headaches, television, and tremors that made her entire body shake. When her doctor delivered the diagnosis and suggested chemotherapy, Crimm knew she would be asked to make a terrible choice. However, she knew from the outset that she had been blessed with a beautiful baby, not a choice.
Courageously telling her family that she had decided the risk of chemotherapy was too great for her daughter, she planned to fight as best she could against the aggressive cancer so that she could live long enough to see her baby to term.
The reward came in August, when she gave birth by C-section to Dottie Mae. The C-section was unplanned. Just days away from death, Crimm collapsed in her home. After being rushed to the hospital doctors performed the emergency C-section to deliver her daughter 10 weeks premature, and weighing just 2 pounds, but otherwise healthy.
Dottie Mae was put in an incubator and wheeled to her mother's bedside. Stacy Crimm got to experience the joy of holding her baby before passing away, just three days later.
Dottie Mae is now living with her uncle, Ray Phillips, and his wife Jennifer. Dottie Mae will also have lots of brothers and sisters to play with as the Phillips family has six children.
Stacy Crimm's family supported her throughout the entire pregnancy and battle with cancer. They understand that although Stacy lost her battle with cancer, she won a resounding victory--for life.
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I know a boy who was born in a similar way. Only in this case, his mother miraculously survived, and both are happy and healthy, now.
Miracles do happen :)
Truly spectacular!
This should serve as an inspiration, almost like no other, in this day and age, when life has been degraded like never before and is now only a commodity, that is the right of someone else to decide upon (to trample upon)!
May she be declared a Saint and may GOD raise her to the Altars of the Catholic Church and a shining witness and example of Motherhood, Parenthood and Sainthood!
GOD Bless!
I wonder if she is a saint. Sounds like a martyr’s death to me, for the culture of life.
Reading this heroic love for life, Stacy Crimm to me is a Saint. She has given the world, and especially America where mass murders of the unborn babies have reached pandemic proportions a great lesson of what God is saying to us. "Stop killing my Children. Stop killing My unborn Babies". Stacy offered her own life so that her daughter can live. God demonstrated His love for her sacrifice by permitting her to live long enough to hold Angel Dottie May in her arms before He took her onto Himself. Stacy Crimm, pray that women may hear God's voice and stop killing His unborn Babies.
Makes me cry, God bless both of them and their family...
St. Gianna Molla is welcoming Stacy Crimm to heaven, I am sure of it! In a world where sacrifice is avoided even by the strong, Stacy is a beautiful example of love triumphing over death. I pray that Dottie May never forgets her mother's sacrifice and someday shares it with the world.
"No greater love has a man than this, to lay down his life for his friend"
John 15:13
If Christ said this regarding mere friends, how much more should mothers be upheld for their sacrifice of life for their children? Praise God!
Yes, God is still with us. We only have to read Stacy's story to know the love of life is a precious thing. How blessed are women like Stacy, knowing she is responsible for this gift from God.
GOD bless beautiful Stacy Crimm and her baby girl, Dottie Mae.....Uncle Ray Phillips and wife Jennifer are so blessed that GOD has placed a Special little Angel to share their and their
six children's lives in their home......This is truly a beautiful story of sacrifice and Love......It
brought me tears of admiration for Stacy Crimm.......She will always be alive to her family......
What a magnificent story! May Stacy Crimm watch over her daughter from heaven, and may the Phillips family enjoy their newest blessing.
What a TRUE "story!" What a shining example! Indeed: "No greater love....!"