In loving memory of Jennifer Michelle Lake..her ultimate sacrifice
Basically a 16-years old student at Pocatello High School, Idaho, she first started experiencing severe headaches. Came to know there was something not right and decided to visit the doctor and went through check-ups.
Doctor ordered an MRI on her head and that’s when Jennifer learnt she had a tumor in her brain. That was the most devastating news a teenager could hear. She trusted life was ahead of her and hoped it would be a happy and a careless one, but actually she faced a battle against a disastrous disease.
At first, doctors told her and her family that the tumor was around two centimeters wide, but after they ran a round of other tests and scans being worse and the tumor was even bigger. Unfortunately, cancer spread to other parts of her body.
Jennifer was told her chances of survival were slim even if she decided on undergoing through chemotherapy. She believed the treatments would make her sterile and she would never be a mother.
”Jenni just flat out asked them if she was going to die,” said her father, Mike Lake, a truck driver from Rexburg, north of Pocatello.
‘We were told that she couldn’t get pregnant, so we didn’t worry about it,’ her boyfriend Nathan, 19, said.
Something unexpected happened, and the couple learned they were expecting a baby. That made things different for Jennifer whose biggest wish was to become a parent one day.
This fierce young lady decided to follow her heart and deliver the baby, even though it put her life in even greater risk.
Nine months later, baby Chad Michael was welcomed into the world.
Just six days after she had her baby, Jennifer was released from the hospital. Sadly, she only had six days to spend with her bundle of joy in the comfort of her home. The moment she died, little Chad was in her arms.
Jennifer was happy she got to give birth and kiss her baby. She made the ultimate sacrifice and that speaks of what mothers are capable of doing for their children.
Her story is touching the hearts of many since 2011, when she left this world. Now, years after her passing, Jennifer’s family is making sure Chad knows of what his mom did for him and how much she loved him.
Mothers are capable of doing great things.
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