When then-pregnant Ashley Bridges found out she had bone cancer, she refused to have an abortion in order to have the recommended chemotherapy treatment.
“There’s no way I could kill a healthy baby because I’m sick,” Bridges told the Los Angeles CBS affiliate.
Bridges, who is 24, found out when she was eight months pregnant that her cancer had spread. “And that’s basically when they told me it was terminal,” said the young mother, who also has a six-year-old son.
She delivered daughter Paisley, now two months old, and has been having chemotherapy treatment since. But doctors say she has less than a year left.
“I tried so hard to keep Paisley safe and do the minimum to keep her healthy … The thought that I’m not going to see her grow up is really hard,” Bridges said.
Bridges’ fiancé, who serves in the military, is taking care of Paisley during the night. She’s also been getting help from family. “She’s a real life superhero,” Jessica Bridges, her sister, said while crying.
Bridges said she doesn’t regret her decision.
Paisley, she said, is “my little sunshine.”
