For Kameshia Jordine, watching her son defy odds that could have easily dimmed his dreams was a powerful reminder of just how far he had come.

Born without hands and with shortened legs, her 17-year-old son, Tyrece Johnson, proudly walked across the graduation stage at Belair High School in Mandeville, Manchester, recently.

“We scream! All his basic school teacher who nuh leave him out none at all, she was there too and we just a scream,” Jordine recalled joyfully to THE STAR. But as her son walked across the stage, her joy was accompanied by thoughts of the challenges he had overcome, particularly the predictions doctors had once made about his future.