In wake of tragedy, mothers help others
New Florence resident Christi Lobb found herself on an emotional roller coaster from the day her son, Thomas Allen Lobb Jr., was born with multiple congenital anomalies until the day he died from them three weeks later.
"All we know is the nerves to his legs didn’t develop. He was paralyzed from the waist down. The same thing made his brain stem too small," said Lobb, 19. "They gave us hope, but we knew there wasn’t anything we could do."
On April 23, the day before Thomas died, Columbia Regional Hospital Medical Social Worker Dasi Schlup told Lobb about a donation program that offered an opportunity for some good to come out of Thomas’s death.
Lobb could donate her breast milk to HIV/AIDS orphans in Durban, South Africa, through the International Breast Milk Project, Schlup told her.
"I automatically said yeah, because, you know, I couldn’t use that for my baby, but I could use it to help somebody else, especially those babies that don’t have nobody," she said.
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