Husband Dumps Pregnant Wife after She Vomits – She Shows up at His Funeral with Their Kids Years Later

A woman was stranded with two babies and undergoing brutal medical treatments when her husband left her. The woman was pregnant with her second child and trying to remain healthy.

Tracy Ferrin was an active woman, who played volleyball and went to the gym, but medical treatments made it difficult for her to keep up. She knew she needed to stay active and healthy for her children.

Amid all her struggles, her husband told her he could no longer be married to her. She was only 18 then, but a pain above her knee bothered her. Although her midwife reassured her it was probably nothing to worry about, a doctor advised her to go to the hospital.

Tracy got advice from a doctor at her church specializing in knees and shoulders. When he examined her knee, he didn't say anything to her, but he knew the lump she had found could be severe.

A day after she got the advice from the doctor, Tracy went to the hospital for scans on her knee. She received a scary diagnosis that would change everything for this pregnant mother and her family.

Ferrin's Horrifying Diagnosis

The day Tracy went to the hospital for scans, she learned she had osteosarcoma, a type of bone cancer. Pregnant then, Tracy was faced with the options of either aborting her pregnancy or delaying treatment for the tumor and risking her own health.

Delaying cancer treatment meant that Tracy's unborn child had a greater chance of survival but that she might suffer. For Tracy, there was no question about how she would handle this situation.

She told doctors she would not be terminating her pregnancy and they would need to figure out a way to handle this situation differently. She was six months pregnant and gambled with her health by keeping her baby.

When she was in her third trimester, Tracy was viable to begin chemo treatments. At first, she didn't experience any problems besides hair loss and nausea. However, other aspects of her life began to change.

Tracy was juggling being a mother to a ten-month-old, being pregnant, and going through chemotherapy, and her relationship with her husband began to disintegrate slowly. It came to its final chapter straight after Tracy's first chemo treatment.

The young woman had come home feeling nauseous and vomited in the toilet. When she exited the bathroom, her husband told her he was leaving. He had been angry with her because she chose not to terminate her pregnancy, risking her own health.

Tracy admitted that although she is now comfortable talking about it, it was incredibly difficult for her at the time. She lamented:

"I was pregnant, I had a ten-month-old baby, and I was fighting for my life."

Tracy believed she had no choice but to make it through her chemotherapy and be healthy enough to care for her infant daughter and unborn child. Looking back, she realized her husband might have been struggling with his mental health then.

Over the following months, Tracy was in a precarious situation because her chemo treatments kept sending her body into early labor. Thus, doctors gave her medication after each round of treatment to stop her contractions.

However, doctors couldn't delay the delivery until she had carried her baby to full term. Six weeks before Tracy was meant to give birth, doctors decided that it was time for her to welcome her child.

Regarding the terrifying time in her life, Tracy admitted she didn't know what she was in for. She confessed:

"I remember thinking, 'Am I delivering an alien?' because my doctors had never delivered a baby that had been exposed to chemotherapy before."

Tracy thought that because she was bald and sick, her daughter might also be born bald. Instead, little Fayth was born with a full head of thick, black hair. Both her mother and father, who was in the room for her delivery, were delighted to have a healthy baby.

Although Fayth was tiny, she was healthy, and when she was whisked away to NICU after her delivery, Tracy admitted she felt a profound sense of relief. She knew she could now focus on getting better without worrying about what the treatments were doing to Fayth.

Tracy resumed chemo treatments just two weeks after she had given birth to her precious baby girl. Her mother became her primary caregiver, as well as her daughters', even being fired from work for taking so much time off to care for her daughter and granddaughters.

Tracy admitted she was too weak to feed Fayth because of her chemo treatments, leaving her mother to do everything for the three girls as Tracy tried to beat cancer and get better.

Tracy went into remission a year after beginning chemotherapy, but she admitted that she hardly returned to the way she was before everything happened. Instead, it took her a long time to settle again.

She found it challenging to talk to people who hadn't been through what she had because she felt they didn't quite grasp the severity of the situation. She admitted that she hadn't processed anything because she was in survival mode, but when she went into remission, it all hit her.

Because the chemo weakened her immune system, she was advised to remain as introverted as possible, making it difficult for her to be social once she was in remission.

Tracy tried to process everything that had happened to her, to find a way to be a mother to two young daughters, and to recover from the physical and mental strain chemo caused on her body. A year later, back in church, she met Ryan, who "scooped [her] right up."

Ferrin's New Life with Her New Husband

Ryan and Tracy began dating soon after they met, and Tracy knew he was the one all along. She gushed:

"After our first date, I went home to my mum and said, 'I'm going to marry him.'"

And marry him she did. Ryan proposed four weeks after their first date, and three months later, the pair tied the knot. The couple welcomed two sons together, who Tracy says are just like her and her husband. Ryan also adopted Fayth and Elly, Tracy's daughters.

They lived happily until, in 2016, Tracy's ex-husband took his own life. Tracy said her ex-father-in-law had phoned her to break the news, and she was shocked. It didn't feel real to her.

Although Tracy didn't resent him, she wondered what would have happened if things had turned out differently for them. She also said she felt guilty when she learned he had taken his own life.

Her ex-husband's death allowed Tracy to realize that there is shame around men sharing their struggles. She discovered her ex-husband was probably struggling and didn't feel he could tell anyone what was going on.

Now that Tracy has two teenage sons, she realizes they need to be able to share their emotions and know it's okay not to be okay. She encourages her sons to share their feelings often.

Tracy is now living a happy life; she is active, healthy, and grateful that she has raised four children and allowed her sons to share their emotions in a healthy and fulfilling way. What an inspirational story!

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