Everlasting Love: the path to marriage & starting a family after a spinal cord injury

Building on the previous episode discussing fertility, the hosts are again joined by paraplegic Dr. Lance Goetz to discuss important issues for men and women with a spinal cord injury who want to get married and plan a family. For a man with SCI, the path to conceiving a child is a bit more challenging due to the biological impact of the injury while for women, their ability to bear a child is fairly intact. During a 23-minute session, the hosts, Dr. Rafe Biggs, Deborah Davis, Hector DelValle, and Ligia Andrade Zuniga discuss this complex topic. You can view this video HERE.

The video is produced by the folks at Sustain Our Abilities, an online resource for people living with disabilities to receive & share information about successful living, and is part of their interactive program focusing on sexuality and SCI. This 40-episode series features Dr. Marcalee Alexander along with Dr. Rafe Biggs, Deborah Davis, Hector DelValle, and Ligia Andrade Zuniga. While the focus of the series is primarily about these disabilities, the information presented is useful to persons with disability, their partners, health care professionals and the general public. You can also find many others on the subject of sexuality and disability on their channel HERE.