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Full of Life When an expectant mother learns she has breast cancer, she faces a wrenching decision. Shocking News You hear all the time about mothers who put their lives on the line for their children. Women who stand up to danger or search tirelessly for a cure. Women who endure pain or hardship of their own, who won’t take no for an answer. All for the children they hold in their arms every night. This is the story of one of those women—brave, strong and determined. Only the child she fought for was still just a promise. And in a twist many people would call a miracle, the unborn child ended up saving her life. This is the story of Michelle DeSantis and Michael, the son who almost wasn’t. The winter of 2002 was a magical time for Michelle. She and her husband, Jim, a stockbroker, had just purchased their dream house, a five-bedroom Colonial on an acre of land in a quiet town on Long Island. After struggling with developmental delays, their six-year-old, James, had started regular kindergarten. And now Michelle thought she might be expecting again. Out to dinner one Friday with her best girlfriends, toward the end of the evening she confided that she’d missed her period a couple of weeks before. Everyone knew how much Michelle wanted another baby, and none of them could stand the suspense. So she and her friends drove around, looking for a late-night convenience store. They bought a home pregnancy test kit and—bingo!—it was positive. Busy with James and getting ready for the move, Michelle did not immediately visit her ob-gyn. She finally made an appointment through her sister Marie, the administrative secretary to her doctor, Adam Romoff. Routine blood work confirmed Michelle’s pregnancy at nine weeks. Dr. Romoff also gave Michelle a breast exam. Feeling something in one of her breasts, he ordered a sonogram, standard procedure for a pregnant woman with a suspect lump. Michelle stuck the prescription Dr. Romoff had written in her purse without looking at it. A we