Best of Luck
Shebee,
My wife and I can relate to your emotions and some of the experiences your daughter is going through. As you know, we opted for the Spinecor brace and had a similar experience with Dr. Deutchman and his staff. It made a huge difference. My daughter is scheduled for her first follow up visit on Tuesday, 10/4 and has been in the brace for 30 days. For us, we bought her new Fall clothes after bracing and bought them a little bigger than usual so that was not as traumatic. For Nikki, the biggest issue is taking it off for 1.5 hrs. then putting back on. Now if she was in a hard brace, she wouldn't have that option and we'd be facing a different problem altogether. It just shows everything is relative. For us, the problems we are dealing with are preferred. I think the resilience of your daughter is similar to that of Nikki's and is remarkable. As a fellow parent, I think your resilience and dedication is worthy of praise, as well. It is very hard for us as parents while we watch our kids go through this. All we do is make the best treatment decisions we can for them and hope for the best. For us, that means avoiding surgery as the last possible option. In the end, our doubts and exhaustion will hopefully give way to the joy of our kids' health being restored. Keep the faith.
Ed
Originally posted by Shebee
My wife and I can relate to your emotions and some of the experiences your daughter is going through. As you know, we opted for the Spinecor brace and had a similar experience with Dr. Deutchman and his staff. It made a huge difference. My daughter is scheduled for her first follow up visit on Tuesday, 10/4 and has been in the brace for 30 days. For us, we bought her new Fall clothes after bracing and bought them a little bigger than usual so that was not as traumatic. For Nikki, the biggest issue is taking it off for 1.5 hrs. then putting back on. Now if she was in a hard brace, she wouldn't have that option and we'd be facing a different problem altogether. It just shows everything is relative. For us, the problems we are dealing with are preferred. I think the resilience of your daughter is similar to that of Nikki's and is remarkable. As a fellow parent, I think your resilience and dedication is worthy of praise, as well. It is very hard for us as parents while we watch our kids go through this. All we do is make the best treatment decisions we can for them and hope for the best. For us, that means avoiding surgery as the last possible option. In the end, our doubts and exhaustion will hopefully give way to the joy of our kids' health being restored. Keep the faith.
Ed
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