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JOANNA BRODER
Special to the Jewish News
fight years ago, Roanne
Weisman, a working mother
of two, awoke from fairly rou-
tine heart surgery to
learn she had a stroke during the
procedure that rendered the left
half of her body paralyzed.
Weisman's doctors weren't sure
she would ever walk again.
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Weisman began the conventional
course of rehabilitation, including
physical and occupational
therapy. After a few
months, although she had
some improvement in her
left leg, her left arm was
still quite weak. Weisman
couldn't pick up small
items, like coins, and felt
unsteady on her feet.
Her doctors told her
that she had "plateaued," and would
probably never get any better. They said
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live within her limitations.
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wouldn't have to tie them — and but-
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longer type, Weisman might lose her
thriving Boston-based communications
consulting company.
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in Newport, Mass.
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gling to pick up tiny
balls of putty and
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at specific points on
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ized a road that forked
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label of "Despair,
Disability and
Invalid"; the other road
said, "Fight Back."
Roanne
"I didn't know where
Weisman the 'fight back' road
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went down the other road and gave up, I
would become an invalid," Weisman
said. "When you're very sick, when
you're at the lowest point of despair, you
realize that no matter how much people
around you love you and want to help
you, in the end you are the one who is
going to have to take responsibility for
what happens."
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