- Tracy Fain suffered a brain aneurysm and stroke last week. Sadly, she's now been declared brain dead. Her son, Ethan, was brutally attacked by two dogs on Christmas Eve. He was at the doctor getting his stitches out after a recent reconstructive surgery when his mother collapsed. 
 
 "I said ‘Here I am. I'm old, lived my life. Why couldn't I have went instead of her?’" Fain's mother Sandra Moore said. 
 
 Moore is heartbroken. Her world shattered into a million pieces the day she lost her daughter. 
 
 "I've just been so upset over it. I'm just about to give up myself," said Moore. 
 
 Just eight months ago, Fain's 7-year-old son was severely injured when he was mauled by a neighbor's dogs. He lost an ear in the attack. 
 
 Then, on August 7, Fain was at a post-op appointment with Ethan at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta's Egleston campus when she collapsed, suffering a brain aneurysm and massive stroke. 
 
 Family members clung to hope that Fain would make a full recovery, but she took a turn for the worse over the weekend. Moore was called to the hospital. She pleaded with her child to keep fighting. 
 
 "I just told her that she had to fight harder. That that baby needed her, how much I loved her, and how much we all needed her," said Moore. 
 
 Moore prayed for a miracle. 
 
 "I prayed all day going to the hospital, the day they said her brain started swelling again. I prayed all day, but it didn't work. It's in God's hands," said Moore. "I just wonder why? Just like my grandson, I wonder why never have the answers." 
 
 On Tuesday, doctors declared the wife and mother of two brain dead, a devastating blow for the family, coming just months after Ethan's incident and the sudden death of Fain's nephew in July. 
 
 "It's just unreal," said Moore. "I know I just don't know how much more we can take." 
 
 Anyone who wants to donate to the family's online account at https://www.gofundme.com/496vn2w. ||||| KNOXVILLE (WATE) – An East Tennessee woman is in a coma at UT Medical Center after a car crash. She’s also 5 months pregnant. 
 
 Sharista Giles was on her way home from a concert in Nashville with friends. Her mom says that’s when the driver of her car fell asleep at the wheel, crashing into a concrete barrier. 
 
 It’s been two weeks and Giles’s family says the baby is healthy, but mom is not making any progress 
 
 “They think she’ll never wake up,” said her mom, Anne Moser. 
 
 The 20-year-old from Sweetwater was getting ready to be a mom for the first time to a little boy whom they call “Baby L”. 
 
 “We were fixing to plan her baby shower for February,” said the baby’s godmother Kaitlyn Melton. 
 
 A tragic car accident put all of those plans on hold. Giles’s family says a traumatic brain injury has kept her in a coma with almost no signs of recovery. 
 
 “We got improvement out of her, she was responding to pain, but have not been any improvements in MRIs,” said Melton. 
 
 Melton said Giles’s doctors say there is a 90 to 98 percent chance she will never recover. However, Baby L is healthy and she’s hoping both of them can survive. 
 
 “You know it could be tomorrow. It could be 8 months from now, but I believe He’s going to do it on His time,” she said. 
 
 Giles’s mom says even though the doctors are preparing her for the worst, she’s praying for a miracle 
 
 “I know my God and I know that they’re looking it as scientific. But God made that brain and he could put it back,” said Moser. 
 
 She says they are meeting with doctors Monday to figure out the best way to help the baby. 
 
 Friends are selling shirts and there is also a GoFundMe account set up to help pay for medical bills. ||||| A pregnant mother of two died in car crash Monday as she drove herself to the hospital to prepare to deliver her third child — who miraculously survived the wreck. 
 
 Desiree Strout, 28, of Canaan, Maine, was with husband Harry Weeks, 29, and their 8-year-old daughter as they made their way to Redington-Fairview General Hospital on Monday so she could be induced into labor at 9 months pregnant. 
 
 When she was just five miles away from the hospital, she lost control when she struck a patch of black ice, which caused the car to slide off the road, roll and hit frozen snow built up along the side of the road, Chief David Bucknam of the Skowhegan Police Department confirmed to PEOPLE. The vehicle then rolled onto a frozen pond and came to rest on its side. 
 
 Desiree Strout and Harry Weeks Jessica Michael Photography 
 
 When rescue workers and the Skowhegan Fire Department arrived on scene, “the decision was made to pull Desiree to the side of the pond where rescue personnel could give Desiree medical attention as she had stopped breathing,” said Bucknam, specifically praising Officer Christopher Viera and firefighter Jason Front for their heroic efforts. 
 
 Police chief says crash that killed pregnant 27-year-old caused by black ice https://t.co/RD11R05AZJ pic.twitter.com/0mSiMQelbQ — Kennebec Journal (@KJ_Online) January 23, 2018 
 
 Desiree died in the ambulance on the way to the hospital, but her baby boy pulled through and survived after being born via emergency Caesarean section at a local hospital. The Kennebec Journal reported that the baby was in critical condition around noon Monday at Redington-Fairview General Hospital. 
 
 He was later transferred to Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor, where a spokesperson declined to comment on the baby’s condition, but released a statement from the family asking for privacy during this “incredibly difficult time.” 
 
 Her husband, Harry Weeks, suffered a lacerated liver, a punctured lung and was listed in critical condition as of Monday, while their daughter has minor injuries, PEOPLE has learned. Their other daughter, who is two-years-old, wasn’t in the car. 
 
 Desiree’s friend from high school, Brandon Blodgett, 28, tells PEOPLE that she was an “amazing mother” who homeschooled her children and loved to teach them things. 
 
 “She had this wicked bubbly personality, and was always so chipper,” he says. “You liked to be around her. She was an amazing mother.” 
 
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 Blodgett says that the entire community is “in such shock” that she’s gone and that their baby is in critical condition. 
 
 “It’s going to take a long time for Harry to be all right, but I have faith,” he adds. “It’s tragic.” 
 
 Buckman says he will be recognizing both Officer Viera and firefighter Forst “for their quick actions that saved the life of the unborn child.” 
 
 “It was an extremely stressful and emotional morning as Desiree was well known throughout the community as well as her mother working at the hospital Desiree was taken to,” said Bucknam. “I personally would like to express my sincere appreciation to the men and woman of both the Skowhegan Police Department and Fire Department for their quick response and decisive action on scene.” ||||| While taking her son Ethan to Egelston hospital on Monday, August 7th in order to have stitches removed resulting from a vicious dog attack on Christmas eve, Tracy suffered a stroke brought on by a large brain aneurysm. She lost consciousness in the lobby of Egelston and was rushed over to Emory for an emergency surgery to relieve pressure on the brain and stop the bleeding from the aneurysm. She is now stable and currently in a deep medically inducted coma but still shows signs of brain activity. The road too recovery is going to be very long. Prayers for Tracy and her family are greatly needed and appreciated during this difficult time. It was a miracle that she was already in the hospital when it occurred. The doctors believe that saved her life. We are praying for another miracle to happen and lead to a full recovery
– "It's just unreal," Sandra Moore tells Fox 5. "I just don't know how much more we can take." Moore's grandson, 7-year-old Ethan Fain, was mauled by two dogs who pulled him out of a tree and attacked him last Christmas Eve in Georgia. Ethan lost his right ear and suffered serious damage to his left ear; his injuries required 300 stitches, the New York Daily News reports. Now another tragedy has befallen the family. On Aug. 7, Ethan was with his mom, Tracy Dowdy Fain, at the hospital getting stitches from a reconstructive surgery removed, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Suddenly, Fain, who had complained of a headache, collapsed. Doctors found Fain suffered a brain aneurysm and stroke. Her daughter, Jessica Dowdy, says she wouldn't have survived if she wasn't already in a hospital when it happened. In the coming days, the swelling in Fain's brain got worse, and she was declared brain dead Tuesday. “Her body is still here, but her soul is gone,” Dowdy says. The family still hasn't told Ethan. “All he knows is mommy is sick and the doctors are trying to make her better like they made him better,” Dowdy says. A GoFundMe account has been set up for Fain, who also lost a nephew last month.