Baby with inoperable tumor gets awesome second chance at life

“We would spend all day just looking at her in amazement”, father Stephen Jones said.

Doctors initially told her parents she wouldn’t not survive, but a second opinion in Boston has led to a second chance at life.

“She is the chillest baby ever”, her mother, Erika Jones, told ABC News in September. “Knew what we were going to do with her ashes”, said Erika Jones.

And while her tumor was in fact still large and present, the baby girl – who was also born with Down syndrome, also diagnosed before her birth – continued to grow and develop.

After Abigail was born, doctors told the couple chemo would likely kill her and that an operation on the tumor would not prevent it from growing back. “I spoke to mom on the phone and told her that I thought there was enough question about the diagnosis that we should not give Abigail a death sentence”.

“We knew little Abby’s life had a objective, no matter how long or short it was”, Erika wrote in a blog post on Mary’s website. “We prayed for her to be healed and however that works out, God gets the glory for it”.

With few choices, the Jones’ made a decision to take Abigail home with pediatric hospice. Then they noticed the baby wasn’t getting any worse, so they got a second opinion at Boston Children’s Hospital. The family quickly flew to Boston, hoping for a miracle. “There are sometimes tumors that are not malignant that can look malignant”, says Dr. Alan Cohen, neurosurgeon-in-chief at Children’s Hospital.

What’s even more wonderful is that doctors don’t believe the tumor will return.

The surgery last Thursday morning was successful.