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    Some of my friends suggested that I should name my brace. Does this seem to help anybody? Did anybody else name their brace?
    ~Michelle

  • #2
    Hello !

    I'm new here ! I'm French, so, excuse me if my english is not very well. I hope you will understand me.

    I had a scoliosis since my birth. But we have treated it when I was 5 years old (because I have had other problems before). During all my childhood, I had a Milwaukee's brace, all the time until 8 years old, just the evenning and the night until 10 and many many times a day from 10 years old to 15 years old, at the moment of my surgery.
    And, I named my brace. I think it's a good way to accept the brace and scoliosis'treatments. It allowed to see the brace more like a "friend", an "ally".
    Each brace have a name: "Chrysalid", "Sun", "Tulip"...
    In this way, it's as if this brace was me was really a part of me. It it so more easy.
    I named it with differents ways like "glue jug", " my chrysalid", " my shell"...

    So, I think that to name our brace can help us to live better with it, to accept better it...

    But it is only my opinion...

    Kisses.
    Kisses everybody.
    Amandine

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    • #3
      yes

      yes i think you should name your brace i did and its great as a code word when your around other people and you dont want them to know you have a brace but i agree with Amandine it does make you closer to your brace

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      • #4
        Yes

        i think you do get closer to your brace if you name it i've named mine after whatever i can think of thats the same color i've had one other brace before this one and when i had that one everyone called me "Barbie" so i named that one "Barbie" and this one i have now is purple and i LOVE grapes so i named this new one "Grapey" and everyone at my school thinks thats cool so i've gotta really close to my brace now that i've named it. Bye ~Sammie~







        Sammie
        top curve: 48
        bottom curve:38
        with brace top: 35
        with brace bottom:same

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        • #5
          Actually yes it does. I wore a brace throughout middle and highschool. I named my brace Herbie. It's harder to dislike something with a name like that.

          Kelly

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          • #6
            Actually it does help. I wore a brace throughout middle and most of highschool. I named my brace Herbie. It's hard to dislike something with a name like that.

            Kelly

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            • #7
              Alfred is cool

              I love alfred my brace he rox, except when I think about chainsawing him...

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              • #8
                Naming Brace

                I had a Milwaukee brace when I was a kid & I named it Millie. It helps to have a sence of humor I wear a TLSO brace now - maybe I should name it too....

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                • #9
                  Names, names, and more names

                  Hey

                  My prvidence brace was Lilli and i really thing it helped but my boston brace was harder for the first 4-5 months it was Big S*** and i dint like it and now it is either that or Turtle Chocolate Box
                  Last edited by Cloudy; 08-08-2006, 05:41 PM.
                  Mák Veronika
                  14 yr.o. girl 9th grade
                  40T
                  54L
                  +rotation
                  Boston Brace since December 2005
                  Location in Florida

                  I play flute.
                  I LOVE ROCK!!!!!

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                  • #10
                    I used to call my brace Evil Plastic Man. I liked naming it lol. everyone should do it
                    ~Leelee ♪
                    [-] 17 years old
                    _[-] 12th grade
                    [-] scoliosis, 45T and 42 L
                    _[-] kyphosis, 67*
                    [-] Boston brace for 4 years
                    _[-] Stopped 6/8/05 at 4:32 PM

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                    • #11
                      Gosh, I havn't been on this site in forever! When I had my brace (the last one) it got named Barbie due to a friend and my mom! It was plastic, and I'm a girl, so Barbie just fit! lol
                      ~~Rebecca, 15 years old, 10th grade~~
                      I was braced for 2 years and 4 months
                      I went through 3 Boston Braces
                      Original curve~34*
                      Curve in 1st Brace~9*
                      Curve in 2nd Brace~14*
                      Curve in 3rd Brace~27*
                      Curve after bracing~34*

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                      • #12
                        yeah sometimes i call my brace gertrude because it is a really odd name. well, i once put a green jacket on it while i had it off, and called it gertrude the green, and now my mom always calls it gertrude, although this all may sound stupid
                        I am 14

                        I love knitting, reading, dancing, singing, acting, etc.

                        I have a boston brace

                        My curves are 18 and about 9 in my brace

                        Originally my curves were about 15 and 30


                        I wear my brace 18-20 hours a day

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                        • #13
                          maybe

                          i just got my brace this june and it doesn't have a name. i guess i never thought to name it. maybe i'll think a name up. it does sound like a good idea...
                          LIBBY

                          14 yrs old
                          28 t
                          29 L before brace
                          right now: 21 L
                          now i'm doing basketball, ballet, and piano

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                          • #14
                            Gertrude

                            My braces's name has been, and always will be, Gertrude. It's sad, though. I'm getting a new one this Christmas. But I really need one. I can barely pull the straps to the velcro! I must be fat =P
                            Hey, I'm Laura, 13, 8th grade

                            Idiopathic adolescent scoliosis..
                            Diagnosed 2005
                            Boston bracing
                            Curves USED to be: 33 and 27
                            Cures ARE: 22 and 15
                            I have AIM
                            IM me!

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                            • #15
                              i think you should name our brace. as a kid i had a brace and i named it larry after my dad who died in a caraccident. but now my daughter has one and named it Julia (i think she just lives the name) and my son named it "Evil Dude".
                              Annie. (61* Before surgery 8* after, Surgery 1990)
                              Mother of
                              Anna, age 11, 54* curve (surgery on 9/2)
                              Mack, age 7, 32* curve (TLSO Brace)
                              Meghan, age 2 18* curve (Monitering)
                              www.potterfamily.piczo.com

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