Bald, getting chemo and pregnant at 45
Saturday, July 26, 2008
For Sadat, a precautionary biopsy confirmed her worry: What doctors initially thought was an infection of the breast tissue was actually a tumor. A tumor that grew quickly.
Her uncle, a doctor in his 80's, told her she had to have an abortion or she would die.
Her oncologist, obstetrician and other doctors at Siteman Cancer Center at Barnes-Jewish Hospital assured her the cancer was treatable and the baby was not at risk.
Sadat, who was 45 at the time, practices yoga, eats organic food and had never been seriously ill. It was difficult to reconcile that with pumping toxic chemicals through her blood.
"I was a pregnant happy mom. All of a sudden you're a cancer patient, and my whole essence fought that," she said. "I think I just knew that I had to wake up and do what they told me to do because I had to be there for my kids."
She fought the disease "bald and pregnant and getting chemo."
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