TV anchor Yvonne Okwara has lost her brother.
She took to social media to share how they had a strong bond but now he is finally gone
In a long emotional post last year titled ‘My Journey with Albert Okwara’ on social media, the TV anchor opened up on living with her brother who has disability.
“The world of disability is a lonely one! The road has been lined with tears, pain, dashed hopes. But it has also had wonderful lessons that have made me who I am today! Let me explain, Albert is deafblind. He does not see, speak or hear,” her post read in part.
She had narrated how her brother is deaf and blind and finds it difficult to talk about it because it “only elicits pity, shame and endless questions.”
She had opened up that while her mother was pregnant, she contracted German measles that resulted to complications when her brother was finally born. The complications later gave way to mental retardation, deafness and blindness.
She explained how her mother went door to door in hospitals looking for answers in vain.