It is certainly difficult to imagine anyone surviving in this world without arms and legs. One would certainly shudder at the mere thought of it. But, if God takes something from someone, He provides him or her the means to survive.
Image Via: Life Without Limbs/FacebookMeet Nicholas James Vujicic, an Australian, who was born with Tetra-Amelia Syndrome, a rare disorder in which the limbs fail to develop. He is among the seven surviving individuals in the world to have been born without arms and legs.
Image Via: Life Without Limbs/FacebookVujicic’s parents were Serbian immigrants from Yugoslavia and became active members of the Melbourne church. His father worked in business management, while his mother attended nursing school at the Royal Children’s Hospital in Melbourne.
Image Via: Life Without Limbs/FacebookVujicic was born in Melbourne, Australia in 1982. When this baby, without arms and legs, was shown to his mother, she was so shocked that she refused to see him or hold him. Later, his parents accepted him and termed it as God’s plan for his son. Vujicic admits that he did attempt suicide, but in the same vein claims that he had an ‘amazingly normal childhood’.
Image Via: Life Without Limbs/FacebookToday, Vujicic makes light of his condition and terms his small deformed feet as ‘chicken drumsticks’! Fortunately for him, surgeons managed to separate his fused toes that now enable him to use them as fingers to hold and carry out other functions. He is able to operate his electric wheelchair, a computer and a mobile phone.
