She was only 18 when rheumatic fever damaged her heart.
The doctors said she’d be lucky to live into her 40s — that she was no longer strong enough to bear children.
Lucky for my five sisters and me, she ignored them!
When we were babies in her womb she never took so much as an aspirin for a headache. She never put anything into her body but the nutrients that would help us flourish.
As a child,…