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In this episode of Rupture, host Wendy Lurrie welcomes back Nina Scherenberg for an intimate and devastatingly honest conversation about what happens when one rupture becomes many.

After a traumatic birth, Nina sensed something was wrong with her newborn son, but her concerns were repeatedly dismissed. Days later, she learned he had suffered a massive ischemic stroke that destroyed much of the left side of his brain. That diagnosis was only the beginning.

Nina shares the cascade that followed. NICU uncertainty, infantile spasms, frightening insurance hurdles, early intervention, invisible disability, public misunderstanding, caregiving isolation, and the emotional and professional cost of holding everything together as the sole reliable parent.

This episode explores:

• what Nina means by a waterfall rupture
• the shock of becoming a special needs parent overnight
• how systems assume support that often is not actually there
• the invisible labor of managing disability and caregiving
• what happens to identity and career after a life-altering medical crisis
• the emotional complexity of parenting a child whose future remains uncertain
• why self-advocacy becomes survival
• what Nina wants other parents to know

It is also a story of profound tenacity. Not only Nina’s, but her son’s.

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