Last October, I wrote an article on this blog about my experience living with spina bifida, and explaining some of the ways it affects me. In retrospect, I’m glad I did it, because it turned out to be very clarifying to my own friends and family who were not too familiar with the condition and that’s exactly what I wanted. Just as I explained back then, it is a congenital malformation that happens in the first few weeks of pregnancy. It is usually caught with an ultrasound before a child is born, as was my case. This is the part I wanted to get into for today's post. For context, my mother was five and a half months pregnant and went in for a routine ultrasound. Her regular doctor was out of town and so another, much younger doctor was sent in to replace him. As soon as he noticed that something was wrong, he seemed to panic and briefly had someone else come in to confirm his findings without telling my parents what was happening. When he finally did tell them about the diagn...
Hi, I'm Gaby! I'm a twenty-something grandma, world citizen, hopeless pacifist, social worker and activist. Topics I like to write about include the Consistent Life Ethic, growing up in a binational household, Liberation Theology and navigating life with a disability.