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I think I may need to migrate to the USA!!!
Gee guys,
I think I'm gunna apply for my green card!!!!!! No joke, I'm so MAAAADDDDD!!!!!!
I'm in Australia and so annoyed. My 12 year old just got her TLSO Brace today and it might have well have been posted out!!!!
Not a single sheet of paper handed to us with instructions on how to adjust to life in a brace. No offers of Physio to help with strengthening excercises. No offer of councelling for a young girl just entering teen years and having to deal with this. Just a few words of "oh ease into it over the next 3 weeks and get some x-rays taken in about 6 weeks". This all happened at the Orthotist office. Wait till I see my surgeon. That's when he's back here, he's taken himself off on an overseas holiday!!! My GP knows nothing - quote "that's why i sent you to a specialist, I know nothing about Scoliosis"
I wanted to tell her "well you dumb xxxxxx, we've been your patients for 8 years now so go find out and help us!!!" Sorry that's a little agressive but nobody wants to know about us.
Lucky I'm resourceful and can research things on the net and secondly lucky i have you guys.
Seems like the USA - especially the Shriner's hospital" has some absolutely wonderful programs and support.
Talk about a backward country - I don't normally knock my beautiful country - (you've gotta see it) but our medical system sure does suck! AND I've got private insurance.
Okay - breath!!!!! I feel better now that I've typed that out!!!
My daughter only wore the brace for an hour today and was in a lot of pain, she was sitting there trying her best but I could see the fear written on her face, it was hurting her so much. She took it off and then wore it again for another hour tonight but heaps looser. It just seems to be stabbing into her arms and is really hurting where the pressure pad is. I know it's only day one and she is a real trooper. We'll get there in the end.
I hate the way it sticks out at the back. She sort of hunches and so there is a gap between the brace and her back - the brace sort of juts out at a 20 degree angle - there is no way to hide that. She has a Thoracic curve, 38 degrees and should really be in a Milwaukee - so maybe that's why it's so high at the back.
You guys say there is a boston T that can be worn under the brace. Huh!!! We have nothing like that here. I'm going to have to do some serious shopping and search out some gear.
Okay - this post is getting lllooooonnnngggg and boring for you all, better end it.
xx
Del
I think I'm gunna apply for my green card!!!!!! No joke, I'm so MAAAADDDDD!!!!!!
I'm in Australia and so annoyed. My 12 year old just got her TLSO Brace today and it might have well have been posted out!!!!
Not a single sheet of paper handed to us with instructions on how to adjust to life in a brace. No offers of Physio to help with strengthening excercises. No offer of councelling for a young girl just entering teen years and having to deal with this. Just a few words of "oh ease into it over the next 3 weeks and get some x-rays taken in about 6 weeks". This all happened at the Orthotist office. Wait till I see my surgeon. That's when he's back here, he's taken himself off on an overseas holiday!!! My GP knows nothing - quote "that's why i sent you to a specialist, I know nothing about Scoliosis"
I wanted to tell her "well you dumb xxxxxx, we've been your patients for 8 years now so go find out and help us!!!" Sorry that's a little agressive but nobody wants to know about us.
Lucky I'm resourceful and can research things on the net and secondly lucky i have you guys.
Seems like the USA - especially the Shriner's hospital" has some absolutely wonderful programs and support.
Talk about a backward country - I don't normally knock my beautiful country - (you've gotta see it) but our medical system sure does suck! AND I've got private insurance.
Okay - breath!!!!! I feel better now that I've typed that out!!!
My daughter only wore the brace for an hour today and was in a lot of pain, she was sitting there trying her best but I could see the fear written on her face, it was hurting her so much. She took it off and then wore it again for another hour tonight but heaps looser. It just seems to be stabbing into her arms and is really hurting where the pressure pad is. I know it's only day one and she is a real trooper. We'll get there in the end.
I hate the way it sticks out at the back. She sort of hunches and so there is a gap between the brace and her back - the brace sort of juts out at a 20 degree angle - there is no way to hide that. She has a Thoracic curve, 38 degrees and should really be in a Milwaukee - so maybe that's why it's so high at the back.
You guys say there is a boston T that can be worn under the brace. Huh!!! We have nothing like that here. I'm going to have to do some serious shopping and search out some gear.
Okay - this post is getting lllooooonnnngggg and boring for you all, better end it.
xx
Del
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