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Mothers often regard their newborn babes as little wonders. In the case of Jazmin Vazquez’s newborn triplets, though, “wonder” is a bit of an understatement.“This is a miracle,” said Frank Avila, Jazmin’s dad and the babies’ grandfather.The triplets were born three days ago, just in time for Mother’s Day. It was an unlikely chapter in Jazmin’s dramatic life, as seven years ago she had been battling cancer. While the disease was vanquished in unexpected fashion — more on that later — Jazmin was told that her treatment had probably left her sterile.“One of my big dreams was to be a mom and get married,” Jazmin said. “At that time, I had to give up those dreams.”.
Both took jobs at pre-schools, Jazmin with Coronado’s Early Childhood Development Center, Eve with La Jolla’s Little Steps Christian Preschool.Engaged a week apart, they married a month apart.After a year of unsuccessfully trying to conceive, Eve learned last September that she and her husband, Dillan Roman, were to become first-time parents. The due date: May 22. It’s a boy.Perhaps, despite lymphoma and chemotherapy, it was inevitable that the other twin would follow suit.After a year of unsuccessfully trying to conceive, Jazmin learned last October that she and her husband, Edgar Vazquez, were to become first-time parents. On Thursday, between 8:59 and 9:01 a.m., she gave birth to three boys: Josiah, Eliel and Diego Vazquez.“It’s amazing,” said Frank Avila, a proud grandfather. ‘God would heal me’In 2012, Jazmin’s life spun out of control. One day, she felt fine. The next, pain and weakness sent her falling to the floor of her shower.At the Kaiser hospital in Chula Vista, she underwent tests and scans.
They revealed a mass over her heart, which was biopsied. Days later, the results came in: lymphoma.“It was a little bit scary,” she said. Chemotherapy was even scarier.
After three weeks of this treatment. She had lost 20 pounds. She was severely dehydrated and her liver was damaged, turning her skin and eyes yellow with jaundice.Jazmin’s oncologist stopped the chemotherapy treatment, planning to resume when her liver had recovered. Jazmin had other plans.“For me this was a sign that something was not going right,” she said.
“I didn’t think that this was going to heal me. I thought God would heal me.”The oncologist pulled aside Frank Avila.
“I’ve never seen a miracle,” he told Avila. “I suggest she take the chemo.”Jazmin’s parents were persuaded. Jazmin, though, listened to her twin. Eve was convinced that Jazmin’s best course of action was to drop chemotherapy altogether.“Should I go with my sister’s opinion,” Jazmin said, “or my parents’ opinion?”No contest. She followed her twin’s advice. No more chemo.Outwardly, Avila tried to support Jazmin’s decision. Inwardly, he was overwhelmed with nightmarish thoughts.
“Where am I going to bury my daughter?” he asked himself. “Where will we have the funeral?”. To increase her odds, Jazmin and the rest of the family adopted a low-fat diet, eating fish, chicken and vegetables. It seemed to pay off. Within weeks, Jazmin regained weight and hair. She felt better and began telling people, “God healed me.”She also switched health plans, moving from Kaiser to Scripps.
Avila accompanied her to an appointment with the new oncologist, hoping they’d get started on a good footing.“This young lady believes that God has healed her,” Avila said.“I’ve seen some things,” was the doctor’s reply. “But I can’t guarantee anything.”He ordered a PET scan of Jazmin. When the results came back cancer-free, the doctor requested Kaiser’s initial biopsy. Maybe she’d never had cancer in the first place?But the biopsy clearly showed lymphoma. “Your daughter did have cancer,” the doctor told Avila. “Frank, maybe it was the prayers you mentioned.” Healing a broken heartJazmin met Edgar Vazquez at church. He was soft-spoken, hard working — he’s employed by a pest control company — and, being six years older, ready to settle down.
Still, she waited awhile to tell him about the cancer.“I want to be honest with you,” she said. “I might not be able to have kids in the future.”His response? “It really didn’t bother me,” he said last week. “I fell in love with her and that was important.”Around the same time, Eve met Dillan Roman, an electrician who is three years her junior.Jazmin and Edgar married in October 2016. Eve and Roman in November 2016. Both celebrated with receptions in the Factory of Dreams, a hall in downtown Chula Vista.Then came news of the twins’ pregnancies. While Eve conceived first, Jazmin was the first to become a mother, as the triplets came out early.
Spending Mother’s Day in Mary Birch’s Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, they’re small — Josiah is three pounds, five ounces, Eliel four pounds, two ounces and Diego four pounds, four ounces — but larger than usual for triplets.Avila, meeting his grandsons, recalled a conversation he and his daughter had shared when she was a little girl.“Dad,” Jazmin had said, “she told him, “one of these days I’m going to get married and have children.”Against the odds, but buoyed by twin power, that day came last Thursday.