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juniperb
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posted February 11, 2012 03:17 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for juniperb     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
This is one of the most heart wrenching stories I`ve read

They have a fund set up through Wells Fargo in the Mothers nameto help the family in their loss. .

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The Aulger family of The Colony, Texas, had a lot to rejoice about in the weeks before Savannah's Jan. 18 birth, which was induced two weeks early so her father could hold her.

A home movie on Christmas showed a pregnant Diane Aulger, 31, handing out gifts to the couple's four children, the oldest of whom is 15. Mark, 52, who had just received the news that he had beaten cancer, played the guitar, providing a soundtrack for the Christmas morning festivities.

On Jan. 3, life threw a curveball.

Mark Aulger was admitted to the hospital, unable to breathe.

Doctors told him that eight months of chemotherapy had ravaged his lungs and diagnosed him with pulmonary fibrosis. "We thought he could get on steroid treatment and oxygen and live for years," Diane Aulger said.

But on Jan. 16, Mark Aulger found out those treatments would be fruitless. He had one week left to live.

"He was awake and alert, himself. I really didn't believe the doctor [at first]," Diane Aulger said. "The next day his doctor came in and said: 'When are you going to have this baby?'"

On Jan. 18, in a larger-than-normal delivery room, Mark rested in his bed, a supportive presence for Diane as their baby girl entered the world.

"The day she was born his oxygen levels were really high," Aulger said. "He held her for 45 minutes. Him and I just cried that whole time."

As Diane was recovering, Mark tried holding his daughter again the next day, but was only able to last one minute. "He just couldn't take it," Diane Aulger said.

The devoted husband and father of five slipped into a coma. "If she cried, he would shake his head and moan. I put her on him when he was in the coma a few times and his hand would move toward her," Aulger said.

On January 23rd, with his family by his side, Mark Aulger died in his hospital bed.
http://gma.yahoo.com/texas-woman-induced-labor-dying-husband-hold-baby-162819264--abc-news.html

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anongrl10
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posted February 11, 2012 04:49 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for anongrl10     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote

:'(

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LEXX
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posted February 11, 2012 04:50 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for LEXX     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
:'(
Please post this at Labors Of Love too.

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Alma Sun
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posted February 12, 2012 01:10 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Alma Sun     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote

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Lonake
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posted February 12, 2012 02:21 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Lonake     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Tragic in a sense yes, but better to lose a parent than a child.

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