Hi all...hang in there with me, please.
My 12yo DD just got diagnosed. Jr. High sent home a letter saying we should check it out. We went to Pediatrician in November and he ordered an x-ray. Said it had a 12 and an 18 so he would like us to go to Orthopaedic 'just to be sure.' We finally got in first week of Jan. He looked at her, "hips straight, shoulders straight..lets do another x-ray". "Wow!" he says, "she has a 27 degree curve." Wow, is right..what happened to 12 and 18.... what happened to 'just to be sure'?
She gets fitted for her brace tomorrow. The shock is wearing off. But when I start thinking about the day-to-day future of what this life will become for her and for our family...it is still paralyzing to me.
How do you all make it to every 3 months to see if 'the curve' (picturing the creature from the black lagoon) has gotten worse? How do you make this all seem ok and normal for your child when I know you all have to deep down hate it for them?
I just feel so angry right now that she has to go through all this... and yet, I KNOW there are so many worse things and that we are very lucky and blessed... but I just don't want her to have to go through all of this! <whine whine whine>
Any and all support, slaps, kicks in da butt...etc, would be appreciated!
Whiney new scoli mom <ugh>
My 12yo DD just got diagnosed. Jr. High sent home a letter saying we should check it out. We went to Pediatrician in November and he ordered an x-ray. Said it had a 12 and an 18 so he would like us to go to Orthopaedic 'just to be sure.' We finally got in first week of Jan. He looked at her, "hips straight, shoulders straight..lets do another x-ray". "Wow!" he says, "she has a 27 degree curve." Wow, is right..what happened to 12 and 18.... what happened to 'just to be sure'?
She gets fitted for her brace tomorrow. The shock is wearing off. But when I start thinking about the day-to-day future of what this life will become for her and for our family...it is still paralyzing to me.
How do you all make it to every 3 months to see if 'the curve' (picturing the creature from the black lagoon) has gotten worse? How do you make this all seem ok and normal for your child when I know you all have to deep down hate it for them?
I just feel so angry right now that she has to go through all this... and yet, I KNOW there are so many worse things and that we are very lucky and blessed... but I just don't want her to have to go through all of this! <whine whine whine>
Any and all support, slaps, kicks in da butt...etc, would be appreciated!
Whiney new scoli mom <ugh>
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