Yasmine Garjales’ fifth pregnancy was tough. From the start, she experienced hyperemesis gravidarum, severe nausea and vomiting during pregnancy. When she was about five months pregnant, the then 30-year-old noticed blood in her stool. Alarmed, she informed her doctors. “I kept mentioning it over and over to the gynecologist to the primary care physicians, but they both thought that it might be hemorrhoids because of my age,” Garjales, 32, of Columbus, tells TODAY.com.
Almost three years later, Kelly has been through 52 rounds of chemotherapy and has had two more surgeries, including an ileostomy — a surgical opening in the abdomen to allow waste to leave the body if the colon or rectum isn't functioning normally — and having it reversed. Undergoing chemotherapy while pregnant was “the most difficult thing,” she says. Kelly will most likely always have cancer.