Tue Aug 8, 2023 – 9:29 pm EDTTue Aug 8, 2023 – 9:34 pm EDT
(Human Defense Initiative) — “I’m not giving up. I won’t,” 30-year-old mother Tasha Kann recently said in a news interview. As a young and intelligent woman from Northern Michigan who worked as a registered nurse and gave birth to two children, Deklan (two years old) and Gracey (eight months old), she is the last person one would expect to have a terminal brain tumor.
Just over a year ago, on June 6, 2022, Tasha was diagnosed with a brain tumor called anaplastic astrosytoma grade III, a rare and malignant form of cancer that accounts for only 1-2% of all primary brain tumors. At this time, Tasha was approximately 20 weeks pregnant with a healthy baby girl.
Doctors informed Tasha that her best chance of survival and more time was to abort the child and immediately begin chemotherapy and radiation. However, Tasha didn’t want to end her baby’s life, even if it meant her own life would come to an end sooner.
“I didn’t know what really to think. I guess in my mind, brain cancer, I thought I would die. To
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