{"id":191583,"date":"2018-11-28T09:35:37","date_gmt":"2018-11-28T15:35:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=191583"},"modified":"2018-12-09T11:01:31","modified_gmt":"2018-12-09T17:01:31","slug":"pregnant-twins-mother-bone-marrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/pregnant-twins-mother-bone-marrow\/","title":{"rendered":"Mother expecting twins needs bone marrow donor to save her life"},"content":{"rendered":"
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UPDATE 12\/9\/18:\u00a0<\/strong>Babies have arrived!\u00a0<\/span>Susie Rabaca is doing well after giving birth to her twins – a boy and a girl – just a week after learning a perfect match had been found for her bone-marrow transplant. The babies were born eight minutes apart and are also reportedly doing well. Rabaca is expected to undergo her bone-marrow transplant soon.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

UPDATE 11\/28\/18<\/strong><\/span>: Donor found!\u00a0Susie Rabaca, the woman pregnant with twins and diagnosed with aggressive acute myeloid leukemia, has found a perfect match<\/a> for a bone marrow transplant. After sharing her story and her need for a 100 percent match on November 22, nearly 40,000 people registered for Be the Match – a record-breaking number. There are about 30 million people registered with Be the Match, but none of them had been a match for Rabaca until now.<\/p>\n

Rabaca’s perfect match has the potential to save her life after she gives birth to her twins sometime in the next week.<\/p>\n

11\/28\/18<\/strong>: Women are often encouraged to abort their children when they are diagnosed with cancer while pregnant. For many women, however, abortion<\/a> is simply not an option. Rather than sacrifice the life of their preborn child for their own chance at survival, they take the risk with their own lives to fight for their child’s survival.<\/p>\n

Susie Rabaca is one of those women.<\/p>\n

Rabaca is due with twins the first week of December.\u00a0Back in September, she learned the heartbreaking news that she has acute myeloid leukemia, an aggressive form of cancer in her blood and bone marrow. She had been feeling tired and ill when doctors discovered the cancer, and asked if she wanted to abort the babies.<\/p>\n

“Of course,” Rabaca told KTLA5<\/a>, “I was against that.”<\/p>\n

READ: Pregnant and diagnosed with cancer, Alicia chose life for her baby boy<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Rabaca, who also has three born children, began chemotherapy treatments, and her family members were tested to see if they were a match. Unfortunately, none were. And her combination of Caucasian and Latino heritage means it will be difficult to find one. But Rabaca isn’t about to stop looking. She is asking people to sign up for Be The Match<\/a> in hopes of finding a donor for herself, and for other people in need of a match.<\/p>\n

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