A Jester's Life: Sometimes It's Just Not Funny

The author, Stephen Michael Jester, II, was born on April 27, 1988. Twenty-three hours later, in a hospital nursery, he was recorded as clinically dead. He was revived after an indeterminate length of time but, within a week, his doctor expressed no hope for his survival. After an intercession, by the Virgin Mary, he was thought to be on the road to recovery. Instead, at eighteen months, he was diagnosed with cerebral palsy, which has permanently confined him to a wheelchair. Then, at three...