A proud dad could not contain his excitement when his young daughter, blind since birth, rode a bike all by herself for the very first time.
Eleven-year-old Armiah Gilchrist lives with her parents, Mariah Gilchrist and Jamie Gilchrist, both 32, and her three younger siblings in Virginia. Armiah, who is legally blind, was diagnosed with optic nerve hypoplasia at birth, a condition where the optic nerve is underdeveloped or absent completely. But she doesn’t let it hold her back.
