If you haven’t heard of this story yet, get some tissue handy.
Mark Aulger and his wife were expecting their fifth child in January. But as soon as the new year began, Aulger was admitted to the hospital, unable to breathe.
After undergoing eight months of chemotherapy, doctors told him that his lungs were destroyed. He was diagnosed with pulmonary fibrosis.
But on January 16th, the Aulger family of The Colony, Texas, received the most devastating news. Mark had one week left to live.
On January 18, Mark told his wife Diane that he wanted to see the baby before he died. Diane was induced two weeks early so her dying husband could hold their baby in his arms.
Their daughter Savannah was born while Mark laid in his hospital bed close to her. Just as he wished, Mark held his daughter in his arms. The next day, Mark slipped into a coma.
On January 23rd, with his family by his side, Mark Aulger passed away.
“The kids go on as if dad is really still here,” Diane Aulger told ABC News.
“Mark was a very funny guy. My kids still tell jokes how they would when he was around. He would have been a wonderful daddy to Savannah.”
Our thoughts and prayers go out to Diane and her family.
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This is absolutely heart breaking.