While both girls still have cancerous tumors in their eyes – “stable” at this point – they’re thriving despite all they’ve endured.
They’re taking a break from the hospitals and tests and therapies in their battle with cancer, a war they’ve waged since they were born two years ago.“Literally, the craziness started as soon as I found out I was pregnant,” said mom Maryann Oakley of Marysville, Pennsylvania, just north of Harrisburg. Pregnant at 38, Oakley fell into the higher-risk category for being over the age of 35, so an ultrasound was done early in her pregnancy.
“She looked awful, and she was just moaning in pain,” Oakley said. Hooked up to machines, Eve was treated for meningitis at first, as doctors tried to rule out possibilities. Tests showed it was a twisted bowel. It was retinoblastoma, a rare form of cancer. A few days later, with Eve still in critical condition, Oakley took the other twin, Ella, to Wills Eye Hospital in Philadelphia.“I was hysterical,” Oakley said. “You don’t have a second to breathe.”
A relative told Oakley to prepare herself for the worst. “But, as a parent, you never give up hope,” she said. The doctors went ahead with the next round of chemo, but they treated her first for the allergy, and she was OK. It didn’t end, though. Infections threatened her again and again, yet she always pulled through.The first time Oakley heard her twins laugh, they were watching “The Ellen DeGeneres Show." They have since grown to become her fans."Ellen makes the twins laugh on their toughest days.
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