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After being diagnosed with a rare form of cancer, a doctor advised Quinn and her husband, Garrett, to return their children to the foster system and she should prepare to die.
Quinn, a native of Manahawkin, is fighting the cancer and finalizing the adoption of their children.
Quinn was diagnosed in July 2018 with leiomyosarcoma, a rare and aggressive form of cancer in her heart, liver and inferior vena cava. She is fighting the cancer and finalizing the adoption of their children.
She almost died several times during surgery. But in August 2018, a surgical team in New York performed a 21-hour operation, removing her liver as a cardiothoracic team removed the tumor from her heart and replaced her vena cava with a synthetic sleeve.
"The surgeon also told me that 60 percent of her liver was already dead from loss of blood and she wouldn't have lived another 24 hours with out the surgery," Garrett wrote on a GoFundMe page.
Quinn spent the next two months in New York rehabbing and undergoing more surgeries to fix complications with her first operation. She returned home to Oklahoma cancer-free in October 2018.
But her first followup CT scan showed the cancer metastasized to her lungs, liver and kidneys. Over the next six months, she traveled back and forth from Oklahoma to New York for treatment until last August.
Then the family moved to Manahawkin so Quinn could get treatment without leaving her family. She recently began a new treatment regimen where she undergoes 24-hour chemotherapy infusions every three weeks in New York.
Amanda and Garrett planned to celebrate the adoption of their children by taking them to Disney World. They talked about the trip for three years and finally went a few weeks ago.
Family and friends have raised more than $31,000 on the GoFundMe page to help with expenses.
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