Pregnant mother discovers a tumor, refuses treatment and dies to give life to her daughter

Sometimes words are not needed, and there are no words, to define the greatness of one's love mother. Only a mother can give her life in exchange for that of her daughter.

This is a story that leaves a bad taste in the mouth, which tells the miracle of life, and the sadness of death.

Anna Negri, journalist of Avvenire, born in Tradate in the province of Varese, lives a happy life and is committed to following the dream of becoming a journalist. In the autumn of 1993, at the Carlo de Martino Institute in Milan, she meets the man who will become her husband, Enrico Valvo.

A little later her dream comes true and Anna begins to write for the newspaper the future. On February 21, 1998 Ada got married. That day was Anna's father's birthday, and the woman sent him a touching letter of thanks, in which she expressed all the love of a daughter and the remorse at times, of having been stingy with thanks when she still had it. flank.

Over time, her husband Enrico undertakes the diplomatic career which leads them to live in Rome, where their first daughter is born Silvia. Anna gives up her journalistic career to be a mother and to follow her husband, this time transferred to Turkey, where they welcome their second daughter with great joy Irene.

The Life Within: The Story of a Courageous Mother

But in 2005, that picture of a happy family, suffers a severe blow. When Anna is expecting her third child, she is diagnosed with gastric lymphoma very aggressive. At that point the Turkish doctors advised her to abort, in order to be able to start the indispensable invasive therapies.

Anna comes to Milan operated for the total removal of the stomach, but at his explicit request, the therapies will be postponed after the birth of the child. Rita she was born perfectly healthy at the 32nd week of gestation.

Despite the woman's determination to fight, after a month-long ordeal, July 11 she dies in the arms of her husband and sister.

His story thanks to Maria Teresa Antognazza has become a splendid book "The life inside“, the biography of a young woman who died at the age of 37 of cancer.