Miriam Wawira-The will to live: Where there is a will,there is a way:Have you ever thought about what you would do if you didn’t have hands? Often times, we take that for granted.
But Miriam Wawira, who has no arms, proves that disability is not inability. Our reporter visited Miriam at her Kinoo home, one month after delivering a baby boy, and filed this report.
- Thirty-four-year-old Miriam Wawira is the mother of a seven-year-old son
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She was born without hands, something that forced her to learn how to do all tasks with her feet
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Miriam reveals that whereas she has managed single parenting for the last five years, not being able to do things like hugging or holding her son’s hand breaks her heart.
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Ever imagined what it would be like to text, cook, and do laundry with your feet because it is the only option you have?
That is the life of 34-year-old Miriam Wawira, who was born without arms. “It was no accident.
Just like you are born with hands and legs is the same way I was born with legs only. I was so tiny growing up that my friends nicknamed me Mims, a name I still respond to even now,” she told TUKO.co.ke’s Hillary Lisimba.
She reveals that the first thing she did early in life was accepting she was abled differently and learning to live with it like any normal being with all limbs would.
While she learned how to do everything else using her feet since childhood, things changed seven years ago when she became a mother.
That meant babysitting, changing diapers, and putting her son to breastfeed all with the help of her legs.
Miriam embodies the strength of a woman from the manner in which she still manages to balance work and being a doting mother to her seven-year-old son.
Read more: https://www.tuko.co.ke/405697-strength-a-woman-miriam-wawiras-parenting-journey-hands.html
