| Description : For Oh Boon Keng, everyday life would be impossible without his mother, a woman of few words but loads of love.
The 20-year-old Ngee Ann Polytechnic student suffers from Duchenne muscular dystrophy, a degenerative disease that means he is weaker now than he was five years ago, and getting weaker still.
'I was born with the condition, but we discovered it only when I was eight years old. I could walk until I was 10, but now I need help with simple tasks like moving from my wheelchair to my bed,' he said.
But Boon Keng today is an international para-athlete, a motivational speaker and a musician, and has just been accepted to study social work at the National University of Singapore - all of which he credits to his mother, 62-year-old Madam Lim Kwee Lan. 'I could not have got this far without her,' he said.
She accompanies him to school daily, waiting around the campus while he is in class so that she can be there when he needs help getting out of his wheelchair. It is some |
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