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Mike Olger, 52, was diagnosed with colon cancer last April.
After surgery to remove the cancer, doctors gave him six months of treatment with preventive chemotherapy, which, however, severely damaged his lungs.
In November, he began to have trouble breathing and in January he became so ill that he had to be admitted to the hospital.
He learns that the chemotherapy treatments he has undergone have led to pulmonary fibrosis, but the family is optimistic that he will recover.
The reality, unfortunately, was not entirely favorable. On January 16, just as Diane is about to give birth to the couple’s fifth child, they learn that Mark’s condition will not improve and doctors only give him five or six days to live.
Her last wish was to see the newborn baby before she died, so Diane decided that the doctors planned to cause the birth on January 18. Mark manages to support his baby Savannah for 45 minutes the day he is born.
He is so tired that in the next few days he manages to take her in his arms for just a minute before collapsing on January 21. Mark rests two days later.
“I brought her home the night before she went into a coma,” says Diane. “It was only Savannah and I that were informed that she was dead.”
Mark is also survived by the couple’s first two children, aged seventeen, and Diane’s other two children, who are fifteen and thirteen.
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