Impaired from infancy

She looks at me she cannot hear she reads my lips as I speak clear . Deaf and dumb she cannot speak, spoken words sound so oblique . She still loves to read her fiction as fingers touch the braille, getting lost in her imagination from her visions of detail . Impaired from infancy so this is all she can recall her parents remember fondly from those days she used to crawl

Alas it soon became obvious after she contracted meningitis that their dearest darling daughter almost died from peritinitis . But thank the Lord above little Lydia pulled through, against all odds she fought her fight though a full recovery looked blue . Yes she lost her valuable senses but Lydia was alive and with love and adoration from her folks their doting daughter would thrive . Thrive she certainly did and now almost fifteen years down the line, Lydia is such an inspiration to other deaf and dumb people with her excellent language of sign