Being diagnosed with breast cancer and finding out she was pregnant on the same day was difficult for Christa.

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And then so 2 weeks later they got the results back and they called me to say, “Okay we’ve got the results, come in for them,” and I’m like okay well I guess I’ll probably have to get a mammogram today too you know just to make sure everything’s okay. So I took a pregnancy test because I knew they were going to ask me that question again and it actually came up that I was pregnant. And that was at about 8 o’clock in the morning that I did it, or nine, something like that. So I had my doctor’s appointment later on that day, a few hours later and then I found out that they actually had found cancer, so it was the same day.

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