I picked her up and headed back for my room. “I wrapped (myself) up in a sheet and went looking for my daughter and found the room she’d been put in. “They would not let me see her,” she wrote. Joan recorded, in a loose-leaf journal, details about those early days in the hospital. Joan Roberts would not give up, even when doctors said her baby wouldn’t survive. Though Dianne describes herself as a survivor, she acknowledges that it was her mother’s love that got her through those early years. “I think I’ve crossed over to a place in my life where I just say thank you. “I think how Christ has made a difference in my life and how I am really watching his hand at work,” she says. I have a very strong determination that says, ‘I’m not going to be sick.’”Ī Christian since the age of 15, Dianne believes God had a hand in helping her defeat the challenges of spina bifida. It was just physical therapy that strengthened my leg muscles, my ab muscles, and my lower back muscles. “I proudly walked in there after four months and said, ‘Look at me now.’ I refused medicine. In 1992, a doctor told Dianne she should expect to be in a wheelchair or leg brace within a year of his examination.
However, the disability left her with side effects, including severe backaches, intestinal distress, and occasional paralysis in her legs, all of which plague her to this day. Two months later, Dianne went through life-threatening surgery to remove the sac. When the sac refilled with fluid, her vision returned. Dianne went blind and had to be rushed to the hospital. When she was two months old, the sac deflated. It was a visible manifestation of spina bifida. A lemon-size meningocele (sac) containing spinal fluid protruded from her back. The wife of singer/songwriter Bobby Goldsboro, Dianne twirls her hair around one finger and smiles sweetly when she speaks about the past.īorn on April 18, 1960, in a charity ward in Lawrence, Massachusetts, Dianne was in a breach position with both legs wrapped around her neck. Dianne Goldsboro.ĭianne Goldsboro looks back at her life and sees one miracle after another. Bobby and Dianne have been married for 34 years and never spent a night apart! Read below the amazing story of Bobby's favorite work of art.
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