"I have few memories of my first foster home, and none of them pleasant. "Do you want me to tell HER what a baby you are?" I remember "The Mrs." threatening. I never thought of her as my mom for all the six years I lived in her home, nor do I recall any love or affection being wasted on me, much as I craved them. The words echoed in my mind: "Baby, baby, baby"! I must admit I sometimes felt life one, because I had to wear diapers and drag myself around on the floor. I spent my evenings in the dining room, stashed in a playpen that was also my bed, and most of my membories of that home were of being placed there after supper each night with a blanket draped over the top and down the sides. I was nine years old."

So begins A Catt in Our House, the inspiring biography of a woman who has overcome multiple handicaps and has gone on to live a full and productive life. She has just celebrated her 40th birthday, an easily attained milestone for most people, but almost a miracle for one with her physical handicaps and background. She was born to the very young wife of a career member of the United States Air Force. The couple must have been devastated to discover that this second daughter was afflicted with three major disabilities: spina bifida, a spinal cord defect that occurs early in the development of a fetus within its mother's womb ; lumbar and sacral agenesis, related conditions where the lower spinal column and sacrum do not develop ; and popliteal pterygium syndrome, a condition sometimes referred to as "webbed knee" .

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