After cancer diagnosis, couple welcomes twins at Delco hospital
CHESTER, Pa. -- After facing a cancer diagnosis, a couple finally welcomed their twin boys into the world at Crozer-Chester Medical Center in Delaware County, and it was all thanks to a surrogate.
It's been a long road for Candice and Ryan Ismirle, who are both Air Force Majors.
Candice was diagnosed with cancer in 2010, just before the couple married.
Facing chemotherapy, they decided to freeze embryos. Candice tackled cancer but efforts to have a baby didn't succeed.
"We had trouble. I don't want to say more of the same but there was additional difficulty and we had to continue to say 'We'll get there, we'll get there," said Ryan Ismirle.
In 2013 the cancer came back.
"I was more sad in my soul to not be a mom than to have cancer again because I know how to have cancer, we're pretty good at it, we've been dealing with it," said Candice Ismirle.
"The minute I saw her she says to me, 'They tell me I can't have a baby,' and it broke my heart," said Erin McKenney, cousin.
McKinney, a nurse at Crozer-Chester Medical Center and the mother of a 4-year-old, offered a gift of love - to be a surrogate.
On Tuesday the boys Ryder Craig and Rafe Michael were born.
"Now to be holding one of my sons. It's just indescribable that we got to where we are now," said Ryan.
On Friday, the entire family is expected to come home from the hospital.
