I have a 12 year old daughter with spina bifida. I didn't find out until I was 5 months along. It didn't matter to me, I never even thought about getting rid of her. The doctors were telling me to have an abortion but I would never do that. So they were all doom and gloom, telling me she would be brain damaged, or a vegetable, or on a resperator all her life, but we had her, and the only thing wrong with her is that she is in a wheelchair. She is in the 7th grade this year and is starting to notice boys ( pray for us on that one). I couldn't imagined her not being here.
God bless you.
There was teacher where I taught who was wheelchair confined due to spina bifida. He had such a great attitude about life. Anyway, I recently read in the local paper online that he just got married. That really warmed my heart. He's such a nice person. He never made an issue of his disability, and everyone treated him like everyone else.
We all have something, some are just more visually obvious.
God Bless you and keep you sane while your daughter is in middle school! That's a challenging age!
susie
When my husband was a teacher's aide there was a boy in another class who had spina bifida. The kid was always popping wheelies in his wheelchair, playing basketball, and scaring some of the teachers because was so daring. He was also incredibly popular. I was on the bus a few years later when I saw him sitting on the bus in his wheelchair. It took me a moment or two to realize it was him, since he had a few girls hanging all over him. When I told my husband about it, he said it didn't surprise him.