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“THE VOICE OF NORTH AND WEST VANCOUVER

May.11, 1986 News 985-2131

A: SE!) EN-month-old North Vancouver irl is on the road

ry after 15 hours of open heart surgery at the

Toronto Sick Children’s Hospital.

"Rebecca Zak, described by. doc-

‘tors’ asa! ‘miracle baby’, underwent

a. major ‘operation Wednesday to
untwist her main heart arteries.

Jeff and Marilyn Zak were able
to be with their only daughter,
thanks ‘to financial support. from
the Lions, Club, co-workers, and

friends from the. Westlynn Baptist
‘ Church. * j :
“It’s really. good of everyone,”

said Jeff.

By KIM PEMBERTON
News Reporter ‘

‘*Everybody we know is praying
for her and that gives us strength.’’

TOUGH GO

Zak said he hopes people con-
tinue to pray for Rebecca, who is
still listed in critical condition. But
he’s confident - that she’! pull
through.

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“She seems to be that nature,”
he said. .
“She had a real tough go of it,

but she made it out of the OR:
(operating room) —-the doctors

weren't giving us any guarantees
that she would.’’ ©

‘Zak said he and his wife are
staying a block away from the
hospital at a hostel, so they can be
close to Rebecca.

The B.C. Lions Society for
Crippled Children raised $2,000
for the Zak’s accommodation and
transportation costs. Another

$1,000 was raised by Jeff's co- .

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“to the —
rescue

‘workers: at Vancouver Pre-Trial
“ Services, and Marilyn’s co-workers
at: the Marpole office of B.C.

Telephone raised $1,700 in’ less

‘than two weeks.

“They sold -282° ‘muffins | for

. Rebecca and raffled off. a_tele-

phone,” said Zak.
IN PRAYER
“He. said -members’ of othe

Westlynn .congregation also. are:
raising funds, .but he said most

importantly they have been ‘pray-

ing for Rebecca’s recovery.

“Even people we've never met °

_ before have heard: about Rebecca
and. are praying ‘for :her,”’ said
Zak.

Rebecca first underwent heart
surgery at the age of two months
_at. Vancouver’s Shaughnessy
‘Hospital. But the family was ad-
vised by doctors that her final and
most complicated operation should
be performed at. the Toronto § Sick
Children’s Hospital.

. “(After the first‘operation) the
doctors .said she must have.-had
someone on her. side, because there
was nothing more they could do
for her,’’? Zak said. “They call her
the miracle baby.” on