I don’t talk about this much, but when I got pregnant, it was and continues to be the happiest I have ever felt. Truly elated because my fertility was always a “?”
I accepted it wouldn’t happen for me.
What I didn’t expect was to become Disabled by it. 1/
I accepted it wouldn’t happen for me.
What I didn’t expect was to become Disabled by it. 1/
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Anywhere further than the bathroom was a no go.
Post birth- I couldn’t feel my legs anymore
There was no pain, no sensation just this numb nothingness where they should have been
Except now I could support my weight a little more 2/
They almost had me convinced.
Except for one -
a gynaecologist-
a lovely WOC
she BELIEVED my lived experience
Everything changed after that 3/
A treatment I had been denied and misinformed about previously to prevent me from making a “mistake”
I can say from the bottom of my heart
This was never a mistake
I can feel my legs now
I can walk
I can RUN
WITH MY DAUGHTER 4/
My husband is able to work
I can finally enjoy some of life’s simpler moments
And the sad part is I know if I hadn’t seen that Dr that day, I likely wouldn’t have received the treatment
#Disability #chronicillness