"A mother reccounts the story of her daughter's struggle with intestinal pseudo-obstruction motility disorder, a rare and incurable digestive illness, and her miraculous recovery following a fall out of a thirty foot tree. Annabel Beam spent most of her childhood in and out of hospitals with an illness that prevented her from ever living a normal, healthy life. One sunny day when she was able to go outside and play with her sisters, she fell three stories headfirst inside an old, hollowed-out tree, a fall that may well have caused death or paralysis. Implausibly, she survived without a scratch. While unconscious inside the tree, with rescue workers struggling to get to her, she visited Heaven. After being released from the hospital, she defied science and was inexplicably cured of her chronic ailment"--Provided by publisher.