At that same moment, as the mother of a child who sustained a spinal cord injury, your life has radically changed and will never be what it was before. I was 38, a mother of 4 and ran a small photography business. Busy booking photo shoots and juggling career and family.
One phone call changed my life’s path. That call informed me my 15-year-old boy was in the hospital and could not move. I knew very little about paralysis. I also knew I had to help him; I had to come alongside my child so he could move forward with his young life. There was simply no other option. Zack’s reaction to his diagnosis was not what I expected; after being told he was now a quadriplegic, Zack intentionally focused on what he could still move, so the healing began. After surgery and 3 months of living in the rehab hospital, Zack came home. While in the hospital, we remodeled our bathroom with a roll-in shower, Thanks to some construction friends. We paved a walkway around the house to our back slider door, where we put a wheelchair ramp. Once Zack was able to get inside, life was now trial and error.