I've shared this info. with my husband....and about the Shriners hospitals with my son.
I do think we will get the 2nd opinion.
We need to get the xrays on our own disk/flashdrive or something. Right now, they're at the hospital.
We'd like to avoid surgery, if at all possible. As long as our son is not in pain, and the curve is not causing him problems...and is not progressing. Of course, we won't know *that* until the next visit (in February) with the next round of xrays.
I feel like being an ostrich right now, quite frankly!
In the last two years, we have dealt with my own breast cancer, my mom's two surgeries (with her contracting MRSA and nearly dying with the first), my daughter passing out and ending up with severe concussions twice, two high school graduations (and kids going off to college), and my teaching jobs being reassigned three years in a row......I've had quite enough, thank you very much...
Oh, and not to mention I turned my ankle - which ended up as three fractures there, and a total of three casts!!! And then just three months ago, I tore the tendon in my right ring finger (which doesn't sound like a biggie, except that I was in a splint for eight weeks 24/7, and then it took another month to get out of it altogether!!)
.....yes!!! All of those things since November, 2009..... yippee....Life is a roller coaster, if nothing else!
Did I mention "stress" was my middle name right now??? ha!
anyway....thank you for being here for me in this newest test and trial in my faith.
God is faithful and He will carry us through this, too....
I'm just holding on for this ride, too....
blessings...
robin