Fort Drum Soldier's Wife Fights For Life

Fort Drum soldier's wife fights for her life after giving birth to premature twins
CNYCentral
by Dora Scheidell
Posted: 03.14.2014

SYRACUSE -- Port Byron native Jenna Hinman, 26, was 30 weeks pregnant with twins when she suddenly couldn't breathe. Her husband Brandon, a soldier at Fort Drum called 911.

"I actually got down next to her so her stomach was on me so I could feel it and it got really intense with her screaming," says Hinman.

Doctors quickly realized she needed an emergency C-section. She gave birth to twin girls weighing three pounds each, but she still couldn't breathe and started coughing up blood. Jenna and her babies were transferred to Crouse Hospital where Gyn Oncologist, Dr. Wiley Bunn has been monitoring the situation.

"Her lungs are so involved with tumor that they don't work. And right now they're not working at all," says Dr. Bunn.

What Jenna didn't know during her pregnancy, is that she is suffering from an extremely rare form of cancer called Choriocarcinoma that forms in the placenta.

"If you ask how many of those patients come in like Jenna with such acute illness, it's a lot less common than one in 160,000," says Dr. Bunn.
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