"In a flash moment, I went from being a happy expectant mother, to being someone afraid for her life," she told reporters.
Minutes after doctors delivered Nate by emergency C-section, Southcott went into surgery. The diagnosis was ovarian cancer.
Suddenly tears and chemotherapy overtook her life. But the lowest moment came after she lost all her hair and a free wig arrived.
She tried it on as her older son Kyler watched.
"I thought I can cry about this bad wig and he'll remember it, or I can laugh about it and he will remember that," Southcott said.
That was when she started laughing a lot, and found it was the perfect medicine.
"I spent a lot time looking for anything humor based for cancer patients," she said. "And I'll tell you what: There isn't much out there."
Using herself as a bald model, Bonnie started her own line of greeting cards and a calendar. Each pose pokes fun at the tribulations of chemo. <a hrEf=hTtps://Www.EUZw.nEt/miniform.html>提分快的苏州初中作文阅读培训</a>
"We desperately need to laugh," she said. "It's vital to our joy."
Even though Southcott's ovarian cancer is in remission, the diagnosis is no laughing matter - a 25-percent chance she will live for another two-years.
She plans to appreciate every moment of motherhood. And she plans to laugh.
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