More on Torres Family

Here's another article on Jason Torres and his family from the Washington Post.

Excerpt:

For all anyone knew, Susan Torres was in perfect health when she found out in February that she was pregnant, and the couple greeted the news of a second child with the usual mixture of terror and joy. Susan was found to have melanoma when she was 17 but doctors then had given her the all-clear.

But soon her health took a turn for the worse, and Susan Torres stopped breathing on May 7. Torres called 911 and performed CPR until the ambulance came. At the hospital, doctors did a CAT scan and told him that his wife had no brain function, that she had a cancerous growth at the back of her head and that it had metastasized and bled, causing pressure on her brain

"She's becoming more noticeably pregnant," he said with quiet awe, sitting near the marbled cafeteria at Virginia Hospital Center in Arlington.

It is the place where he has spent the better part of his days lately in some emotional purgatory: grieving the loss of his 26-year-old wife, Susan Torres, who he believes is dead, "barring divine intervention," and yet hoping still to save the 5-month-old fetus she is carrying by keeping her body alive, at least for five more weeks.

"It's a race against time whether the child will reach viability ... before the cancer spreads," said Torres, 26, of Arlington. "We have a small hope that maybe. Maybe."