Patricia Williams has never walked, but she has never let her lack of mobility hold her back. She was disabled from birth, but has determinedly lived as normal a life as possible and is now making plans to get married next year.
Patricia, who practically grew up at the Cheshire Home in Mahaica, now works there as a caregiver and took time out from her busy schedule to recount her life story, and encourage persons living with disabilities as well as those who are related to them, not to give up the fight and to believe in themselves.
Patricia, also called Patsy, was born in Lancaster at the Mahaica Hospital with a defect, which according to her occurred at birth. She said a cousin told her that forceps were used during her premature delivery. “Apparently they squeezed it
