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Jacob was diagnosed with the rare condition when he was a few days old, and since developed gastrointestinal dystonia, a debilitating stomach condition caused by neurological impairment.

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"It was heartbreaking, debilitating, frustrating… I was stopped in my tracks. I'm still probably working through a range of emotions," he admitted.

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“The Dream” also explores her complicated relationship to death following that debilitating bus accident, one of her signature themes.

The prime minister has made much of his background, repeatedly mentioning in speeches his father was a toolmaker and his mother a nurse, who suffered from a debilitating form of arthritis known as Still's disease.

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Jaguar Land Rover said Friday it swung to a quarterly loss of almost $750 million after stopping its assembly lines in September to manage a debilitating hack.

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