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  • #16
    Why do we keep something we hated so much??? I thought for sure it was going to end up in a bonfire. I saw myself in a feathered headdress dancing around it.

    Megz- I felt like they named it the Turtle Shell, was because that what you feel like with it on. Every now and then I would walk around the house flinging my arms and chanting danger, danger Will Robinson, and everyone knew I was having a good day.

    Mine is sitting on a table in the basement, and every once in a while I dust it off. And I still wonder who makes that velcro???

    Shari

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    • #17
      I don't know about your all's braces, but mine even had a cutout for the boobs!!! LOL!
      May 2008 Fusion T4 - S1, Pre-op Curves T45, L70 (age 48). Unsuccessful surgery.

      March 18, 2010 (age 50). Revision with L3 Osteotomy, Replacement of hardware T11 - S1 , addition of bilateral pelvic fixation. Correction of sagittal imbalance and kyphosis.

      January 24, 2012 (age 52) Revision to repair pseudoarthrosis and 2 broken rods at L3/L4.

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      • #18
        Shari - I'm laughing my head off, having got this image of you walking round in your brace saying "Danger danger..." I used to love that show
        Lynette - 44 years old.

        Pre-surgery thoracic 55 degrees
        Pre-surgery lumbar 85 degrees

        Post-surgery thoracic 19 degrees
        Post-surgery lumbar 27 degrees

        Surgery April 1st 2010.

        Posterior spinal fusion from T9 to sacrum.
        Dr. Cronen at University Community Hospital - Tampa, FL.

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        • #19
          My brace had a cut out for boobs too LOL........
          Aug.17,09 Anterior
          Aug.20,09 Posterior
          Fused T-10 to Sacral Pelvis
          Cedars-Sinai
          Dr.Pashman

          Sheri 47 years young
          Husband married 30 years
          3 kids 29,28,25
          4 grandkids 10,8,5,3

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          • #20
            Damn, I should have pattened that "boob" hole. I had my husband at the time, trimming and cutting it until I was finally comfortable. and one trimming involved the "boob job" cut out.

            When the brace guy saw it for the 1st time, I asked him how he liked my boob job, and he didn't even smile.

            If anyone asks me if I'm a Turtle, I reply, you bet your sweet ass I am!!!

            Shari

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            • #21
              Shari--That guy had no sense of humor. I think the boob job is pretty funny! Janet
              Janet

              61 years old--57 for surgery

              Diagnosed in 1965 at age of 13--no brace
              Thoracic Curve: 96 degrees to 35 degrees
              Lumbar Curve: 63 degrees to 5 degrees
              Surgery with Dr. Lenke in St. Louis--March 30, 2009
              T-2 to Pelvis, and hopefully all posterior procedure.

              All was posterior along with 2 cages and 6 osteotomies.

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