“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…

  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,…

“In the months and weeks leading up to the arrival of a new baby there’s a sense of excitement and anticipation in the air,” writes Christinne Rudd. There’s a laundry list of things to do before baby’s arrival. And as a…