The Hand I've Been Dealt

Barbara J. Mack was twenty years old, raised on a family farm and steeped in the kind of love that comes from hard work and tight-knit roots, when a near-tragic car accident rewrote the life she thought she knew.

The diagnosis that followed - a seizure disorder, in an era with little information and even less support - pulled her family closer, even as it pushed her into unfamiliar territory. Just as her seizures began to steady, an unexpected pregnancy arrived and upended everything …