Ebony Ingram found out she had leukemia on January 14 while she was 27 weeks pregnant. She was immediately admitted to Novant Health Forsyth Medical Center the next day. Now, Ingram is grateful for her life and that of her twin newborns.
She told WXII 12, “It’s a blessing, it is amazing. I’m thankful for God allowing us to still be here today so I can be able to tell my story and still be able to go on with my journey.”
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Her medical team made the call to deliver her twins early so that she could start her cancer treatments.
“Not only are we treating the patient but then we also have two other patients in this case that need just as close of care and monitoring that is certainly outside the scope of my normal practice. When I heard about Ebony, I made a few phone calls to basically every doctor I know at Novant Health and said ‘we’re going to need help,'” recalled Dr. James Dugan, clinical lead for stem cell therapy at Novant Health.
While most of her medical journey has been a blur since delivering her twins nearly 15 weeks early, Ingram said every day is a blessing.
“Some days, it gets the best of me and I think ‘Oh my God, I can’t make it,’ but then I have my support team that supports me a lot and I just want to make it,” said Ingram.
She celebrated Mother’s Day with relief and confidence, thanks to the support of her doctors, nurses, and family. They gave her the strength to fight for health, not only for herself but for the newest additions to her family.
“They told me don’t give up, it’s going to be alright and you’re going to make it. The babies are going to make it. And then I had all these different nurses praying for us and I was just so happy,” Ingram remarked.
Her babies have been discharged from the NICU, and the new mother is anticipated to recover completely from cancer with only a few months remaining in her therapy.
“Everything that I experienced through this whole journey of being hospitalized just feels like a blessing because I wasn’t expecting to make it, and I wasn’t expecting my twins to make it at all,” Ingram said.
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