Changing the diaper of a squirming infant can be tricky for anyone. Meg is a quadriplegic with limited hand function, and she demonstrates how she’s managed to wrangle a diaper on her infant daughter. https://youtu.be/mFFgLGmRHfQ Meg uses her thumb grip…
Francis with wife and daughter. For 36-year-old Filipino chess player Francis Ching, who has retinis pigmentosa and is completely visually impaired, believing in love as a husband and father does not require seeing. In 2008, Francis was working as a…
Parents have so much pressure to be perfect these days. Jennifer, a parent and also a wheelchair user, writes about this parenting pressure as it applies to the disabled community. “We are supposed to be inspiring to others, overcoming “challenging…
As parents, nothing hurts more than to see our children excluded. For Kara, that pain was intensified when she realized that her toddler had been excluded from a birthday party because both Kara and her husband are wheelchair users. …
“I’ve dealt with people staring at me my entire life. Ever since I can remember, people would stare, surprised that I don’t have any legs and only have one arm.” Having dealt with staring for so long, Erin has developed routine…
Jennifer doesn’t drive. She walks her children everywhere they need to go. Jennifer doesn’t drive because the last time she did she had a panic attack, which caused an accident, which caused her traumatic brain injury. The injury combined with…
Linda and her son Timmy both have Holt Oram syndrome – a rare condition which caused them both to be born without arms. Both Linda and Timmy have adapted to living life without upper extremities. https://youtu.be/rgB5XyqZoNc Neither one uses prosthetics.…
My husband Jeff is a C4 ventilator-dependent quadriplegic. Our daughter Evie was four years old when he was injured. Now she’s almost seven. For the last three years, she’s been on this spinal cord injury journey with us. She’s watched and…
Rachelle and Chris recently embarked on a new journey in their life: parenthood. Rachelle, a well-known figure in the spinal cord injury community, was paralyzed from the chest down after she was pushed into a shallow pool at her bachelorette party.…
Camilla is a mom with muscular dystrophy. She and her boyfriend Jesper are raising three children: a pre-schooler and two young twins. Muscular dystrophy is a disease that causes weakness and loss of muscle mass throughout the body. So for Camilla,…