Facing the possibility of more bad news was extremely difficult for Christa.

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That was almost more than I could handle and with everything else I just …like I said when I first found out about it, in the summer time, I just thought well, I guess I’m not going to make it …

I was laying in my bed and I’m like “Okay.” And then I just go off the phone and I continued to lay down and I just couldn’t… it was just I couldn’t deal with it anymore. They just kept checking it and checking it and I think it, they were checking to see if it would grow or shrink or what would happen. I think it stayed pretty much the same and they had to continue doing the MRIs* (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) after I was pregnant to see if, with the change in the estrogen, if they would change. And it still didn’t change.

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