Pause to Remember: Providers Sharing Loss Stories

17. Brenda Behan, LSW Talks About Losing Tucker and MS While Pregnant

Amy Pelkey, MSN, CRNA, RYT 200

Brenda Behan, LSW, learned there was something wrong with her son, Tucker, when a cystic hygroma was detected at her first ultrasound appointment.

At that time, she was experiencing numbness on the right side of her body.  Soon after, a large lesion was detected on her brain stem, MS was diagnosed, and treatment began.

Brenda had many difficult decisions to make including:

  • Continuing to work in her "dream job" or take care of herself
  • Terminate her pregnancy or carry Tucker
  • Leave or stay in her marriage
  • Getting help from a therapist

Tucker's memory is preserved through the work Brenda and her husband, Trevor, do through Good Day Racing.

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