Mom Uses Feet to Care for Baby After Being Paralyzed. Now She's Working to Stop the Disability Stigma Georgia Slater is an associate editor on the Parents team at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2018. Her work has previously appeared in USA Today and Washington Life Magazine.Christina Mallon doesn't let her disability stop her from being a successful working mom — she embraces it.
"We were really on this wild goose chase of trying to understand what was causing this. Doctors believe that my case is extremely rare. I only know of one other person that has this," she continues. "I every day not knowing if I'm going to lose the ability to use my legs or the ability to drink or eat. So I have just tried to use every day to make an impact on other's lives.
"My friends never stopped texting me and work never stopped. So I had to figure out a way. Because my disability slowly happened over time, I would lose a different ability to use a part of my arms and hands every year," she explains. "Slowly over time I just tried using things, doing it with my feet, typing, texting, because I still had to get back to my friends and I still had to do my hair and do my makeup.
"There really isn't much, so I knew that I kind of had to create and hack some things, which I did," she says. "I knew that I was coming up against a world that wasn't going to think that I could be a sufficient mom or that me being disabled wouldn't be a positive thing in my child's life.""When you read online, you don't see many great stories about disabled moms. They're out there.
" feeding myself, washing my own body, but doing it for someone else was a new challenge," she recalls. "How do you get a bottle? How do you do a diaper? How do you chop up food?"