Spina Bifida

My Podcast(The Journey To Independent Living) Having lost hope in blogging and medium altogether, I have decided to go podcasting…..( ummm,🤔 but I might still blog later🤗) About My Podcast My podcast is titled The Journey To Independent Living. I will be discussing with young adult living with disabilities(Spina bifida and hydrocephalus most especially) on ways through which we can live a beautiful and fulfilled life.

Dear Shondaland Team, My name is Laurita Tellado, and I am the Founder and President of a small, family-run non-profit named The Laurita Spina Bifida Project. (My parents are Vice President and Treasurer!) I’m originally from Puerto Rico but was raised and live in Orlando, Florida. I’m also a longtime…

Being a Caretaker and Maintaining a Career After 20 years of working in my career, I took the leap into parenthood. The adjustment from being a working woman to a working mom was full of unexpected twists and turns. Especially when we learned that our child would be born with…

Not Contagious; Be Prevented — Spina Bifida comes in three varieties: A hairy patch, dimple, dark spot, and swelling on the back, besides, or on the spine are all mild symptoms of spina bifida occulta. This type of meningocele affects the baby’s lumber region, where a fluid-filled sac is located close to his spinal cord…

My name is Santito the Kitten. When my hooman mom found me, I was a furry pile of blood, fleas and dirt. Underneath all that was what mom has described to me as “an adorable 8 week old gray and white kitten with wide, loving gold eyes.” I was suffering…

I Am Like You — It is a brain tube deformity that happens when there is an unseemly development of spine bones in the encompassing piece of child's spinal line. It can happen anyplace on his back or region between head and hips. It occurs in beginning phase of pregnancy and influences child's lumbar spine…

Diagnosed Girl — You could have seen my title and thought omg that is the main point individuals normally make to me. I don’t have disease. I don’t have a growth. Sadly for me mind a medical procedure is normal. …

Spina Bifida Life — Every year roughly 8 million infants overall are conceived each with serious birth deserts that might be physical, mental, utilitarian or metabolic. Much of the time, babies with a serious intrinsic problem who make due, need to live with extreme inabilities for life.Spina bifida is a birth imperfection influencing the…

We adopted our first child in 2010 — a darling two-and-a-half year-old girl from China with a round little face, an amazing smile… and a scream that could shatter plate glass. She was the most tiny and beautiful and terrifying thing on the planet. Not just because I was clueless…