In the end, Antonia Miles proved to be a fighter.
The 4-year-old Galloway girl who battled an aggressive brain tumor died Saturday morning, her mother announced on a Facebook page dedicated to the girl’s struggle.
“Sweet Antonia Gabriella broke out of the body that she was trapped in for a year and a half,” a heartbroken Lisa Jackson wrote on the newly tiled “Forever Antonia” page.
At 11:47 a.m. “I held my bug while she took her last breath,” Jackson wrote. “She grabbed my hand and squeezed, and I told her to come out and play.”
But it was days after her condition began deteriorating and her mother began to plan for her death.
Lisa Jackson was banking on a miracle. Now, she’s just hoping for a few more days. Her 4-year-old daughter, Antonia Miles, suffers from a rare and highly aggressive brain tumor called Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma. The single mom from Galloway Township spent thousands and thousands of dollars
“You will not believe this,” Jackson wrote late Friday. “Antonia’s a true WARRIOR. She's still here with us, waking up and holding my hand and holding me. She's had a couple close calls but pushed through, with the gurgling in her lungs.”
She wrote later that it was like her little girl didn’t want to leave her, and that Jackson didn’t want to let her daughter go.
Antonia suffered from Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma, or DIPG, a rare and inoperable condition.
The single mom from Galloway Township spent thousands and thousands of dollars on a new treatment in Monterrey, Mexico, hopeful after a boy with DIPG saw his tumor disappear through the treatments.
Lisa Jackson is banking on a miracle. The single mom from Galloway Township watched last year as her sweet, smart and active daughter went from a normal toddler to an irritable, struggling child. Less than two months shy of her third birthday, Antonia Miles was diagnosed with a highly aggressive
But this week Antonia started deteriorating quickly, Jackson told friends, loved ones and strangers who have come to love the little girl with the bright smile via her Facebook page, Fight4Antonia.
A celebration of Antonia’s life has been planned. Details are expected to be released later.
Donations can still be made through the
Fight4Antonia PayPal account.
T-shirts are also being sold to help and get the message out:
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