Jenna Hinman, from upstate New York, recently gave birth to twins only to discover she's suffering from a rare form of cancer that requires her to be placed in an induced coma, Yahoo reported.
Hinman is fighting for her life following the diagnosis and her husband, Brandon, a United States Army infantry sergeant, is doing his best to save his wife.
"The whole situation is a tightrope. We have to treat her or we'll lose her - and if we treat her, we may lose her," Jenna's doctor, gynecologic oncologist Wiley Bunn of Crouse Hospital in Syracuse, told Yahoo.
The entire family is receiving growing support, with several fundraisers in the works. A GoFundMe page set up for them has so far received $60,000. During an interview with Yahoo, Brandon expressed his gratitude for everyone that helped them collect the huge sum of money. "My hope is that every single person that's reached out truly understands how thankful we are."
Meanwhile, Hinman's twin girls, Kinleigh and Azlynn, who each weighed three pounds at birth, are both stable.
"It's supposed to be the greatest time in our life, and it turns into the biggest nightmare," Brandon said.
On March 3, Jenna, who was just 30 weeks pregnant, went into premature labor. She was rushed to the hospital and delivered her twins via C-section, at which point she had difficulty breathing and started coughing blood. She was put on a ventilator.
Just days later, her doctors determined that she had tumors and lesions caused by choriocarcinoma, a cancer that starts in the placenta. Bunn noted that this type of cancer occurs in about one in every 160,000 pregnancies.
A Facebook page has been set up for the couple.
