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Be Not Afraid sufferingwanted them to do. Part of it was her personality – shehad always been a fighter – but there was also anotherincentive for regaining strength and mobility: she wasexpecting a child.Six months after her operation, Deb gave birth toa boy. Miraculously, Mark was strong and healthy,despite all his mother had been through in the previousmonths. Deb, for her part, was too weak to care forhim, or even to hold him for any length of time. Butshe did what little she could: by propping her arms upwith pillows, she fed him by tipping his bottle towardhim sideways.When Mark was six weeks old, Deb entered a rehabprogram to re-learn the daily activities and skills shehad taken for granted all her life, but could no longerperform: walking, writing, tying her shoes, buttoningher blouse, combing her hair, cracking an egg. Despitethe tremendous efforts she made, her recovery wasonly partial: walking proved difficult, her hands shookso that her writing scrawled all over the page, and sheremained extremely frail.For the next several years Deb courageously foughther way back toward normalcy, one painful step afterthe next. Then, almost imperceptibly, she began tolose ground. Surgery was advised, and she underwenttwo operations, but neither helped in the long run.For the last five years of her life she was confined to a11