“It must be every mother's nightmare to make that choice,”says Trish,37,“but there was no contest. I desperately wanted this child to live, even if it meant sacrificing my own life. Isn't that every mother's instinct?”
Trish, a former chemist, was diagnosed non-Hodgkins lymphoma, a cancer of the lymph glands, in 1995 and by that time the disease had spread throughout her body.
After more than a year of chemotherapy, Trish was in partial remission but the treatment hadn't worked as well as doctors had hoped. She was given a break while experts decided what treatment to try next and she and Paul took a holiday in Turkey. While there, they spotted a pair of gold wedding rings and bought them on the spur of the moment.