I have a T4 complete SCI and I’m independent, I am also a qualified Social Worker. My partner and I are considering looking into becoming Foster Carers. Anyone else with a SCI a Foster Carer? What was the process like? How did you find navigating it with a disability?
Am I able to be a Mum and a good parent with a SCI? I’m a T4 complete paraplegic. I know biologically people with a SCI can carry a child etc but I’d worry, can I be an involved and an active parent, what aids or adaptions can be used etc. I’d hate the child to grow up with resentment or hate the fact I couldn’t do xyz.
I do not want this to come across as rude, I believe that people with a SCI can be fantastic parents. I think it’s just my own internalised ableism and the grief I feel towards that fact that I won’t be an able bodied parent.
In 2020 when I was 16, I developed Transverse Myelitis which caused a complete Spinal Cord Injury at T4, I am therefore paralysed from my chest down. Doctors believe that my TM was caused by a common cold, whereby my body attacked my spinal cord rather than the cold virus. AMA