Watching my daughter eat her dinner with a knife and fork, I felt overcome with emotion.
It was so simple – but something I wasn’t sure Caitlin would ever be able to do.
You see, Caitlin, now seven, had been born with only one functioning hand.
She had a condition called symbrachydactyly – it caused short fingers that may be webbed or joined, or not developed at all.
It was one of those things.
When she was first born I was upset, wondering what her life would be like – but as days and weeks passed, we came to accept her condition.
There was nothing doctors could do, and it wasn’t causing any other
