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A Debate on Health

My daughter Grace. She had an unusual thing about her. Apart from groaning at contact, she  was floppy.Once you could lift her up and she would slouch and bend her legs as if to say ,' please l don't want to stand.'  When she begins to slouche like that, placing her on my lap would prove a little taxing because then l would have to be very careful else she would fall off. She moved like mercury, swift and sudden. I used to say,' this child is strange'. She flows like water. I did not know that my little one was actually not well.  At times  l thought it was heat stress. Yet I could not put to pieces why she could not jold her heard firm. She would bend it backwards as if it was too heavy for her, so l often supported her with my hands. Then, other times her whole body would be firm, she would stand  with her legs straight and tall. Her head would be firm and steady or just shake a liitle bit. As such on days when she was weak and floppy, l thought she was either tir