The man in our story was born with a rare condition making his limbs not grow properly. Because of this condition, his life has certainly been tough, but that hasn’t stopped him from being a loving and effective father to his two daughters. Abandoned by their mother, this family has proven that love knows no disabilities.
Being a single parent is tough. Being a single parent with a major disability is even more difficult. However, Pablo Acuña of Paraguay proves that nothing is impossible.
Acuña was born with a condition that meant his arms and legs never developed, making him rely on his family to take care of him his whole life. However, he fathered two daughters, whose mother left them early on. This caused Acuña and Acuña’s mother to raise the girls alone.
In spite of the challenges, Acuña and his mother managed to raise two wonderful girls. Those girls, who are now both in their twenties, speak lovingly about their father and how his disability didn’t stop him from being a great dad.
Since Acuña was a child, his mother has been taking special care of him. Once his daughters arrived on the scene, she helped him with all the tasks of child-rearing that he was unable to do without arms and legs. When the girls were older, their family moved away to take advantage of opportunities and education elsewhere.
The girls grew older and of course their grandmother did, too. Now, the woman in her 90s was becoming less and less capable of taking care of her son.
“My dad is my world. He is my friend… he is the best dad in the world. That’s why I left my life in Argentina and came to stay. To be able to take care of him because, my grandmother can no longer do it because she is already old.” The younger daughter, Elida, who decided to move back home to help take care of her dad, explained.
Acuña has been dealt a difficult hand in life. He is unable to physically take care of himself and also was unable to do so for his daughters. Not being able to attend school was a challenge to provide the life he wanted for his girls. On top of that, the mother of the 2 girls left them all behind and never looked back.
Despite all of this, Acuña always has a smile on his face. He is impossibly positive and loving when he could have turned cold and jaded toward the world. What he couldn’t give his daughters in physical care he more than made up for in emotional and mental love and support. He along with their grandmother taught them the true meaning of family and the true meaning of love.
“I have never seen my father sad,” Elida said. “He is always happy, gives me wise advice, despite never having gone to school. He is very smart, and I admire him very much.”
Naturally, the family struggled to make ends meet. One dream that Acuña always had for his family was to provide for them a proper home. He inspired people for years with his story. Elida hopes that as his story becomes more widely known around the world, perhaps people will be able to help them realize that dream.
“We live in a rental home, and the owner of that home wants to sell it. The price is 95 million guaranies (about $13,850 US). We are short eight million guaranies ($1166 US) to make our dream of owning our home come true,” Elida explained. “It doesn’t seem like much, put it is a lot when you don’t have it. Now I can no longer work, and my dad receives a salary every two months but it is enough only to eat.”
Clearly, this family has a lot of love in it. Hopefully, as their story becomes more widely known around the world, people will be able to help them achieve their goal of owning their home and having more security.
Source: secretlifeofmom.com
