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Rose Smith was shot on her front doorstep in a South Los Angeles housing project, caught in the crossfire of rival gangs. With two young children and a baby on the way, when the bullets tore through her arms, broke her jaw, and left her paralysed from the waist down, she thought "God, please don't let me die right now... It's not my time to go." In the ensuing months she was in constant pain, spending most of her days in bed. She named her baby "Miracle." Now three years old, Miracle lifts her mother's leg as Rose slides into her wheelchair. "We both really are a miracle," says Rose "because we both survived that shooting." The family had stem cells from Miracle's umbilical cord preserved in hopes that doctors may one day use them to help restore feeling in Rose's spine. In th emeantime Rose struggles to find work and her relationship with her husband is deteriorating under the stress.