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  • #1

    This Scar

    Hey forum!

    I have been coming to this forum (mostly as an observer) for as LONG as I can remember. I would like to say since I was 15 or 16 (and I'm now 25), has it been around that long?

    I am a singer/songwriter, and finally 8 years after my surgery I've written a song about my journey with scoliosis. It's still very new (only a week or so old) but last night my brother Brent & I made a you tube video of it and I posted it this morning. I would love for you - all my friends, that I feel share a special bond through our scoliosis - to take a listen to it.

    I really hope you like the lyrics and can identify with it, it's called "This Scar."

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GFUvQG-7ks
    Last edited by lisanicole; 10-07-2008, 12:10 PM.
    lisanicolegrace
    29/F/Canada
    Surgery - 11/10/2000
    80° curve to 19° post op.
    www.lisanicolegrace.com
    @lisanicolegrace
    facebook
    x-rays
    picture of my back
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  • #2
    Wow, I am so impressed!! It's awesome, and you have such a beautiful voice! The song is really powerful and just gorgeous! You have so much talent! =]
    Nicole//18 years old, college sophomore//50 degree thoracolumbar curve//Posterior Spinal Fusion in 2008, Fused T5 to L3

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    • #3
      Hi Lisanicole,
      Very nice job! Thanks for sharing. Sally
      Diagnosed with severe lumbar scoliosis at age 65.
      Posterior Fusion L2-S1 on 12/4/2007. age 67
      Anterior Fusion L3-L4,L4-L5,L5-S1 on 12/19/2007
      Additional bone removed to decompress right side of L3-L4 & L4-L5 on 4/19/2010
      New England Baptist Hospital, Boston, MA
      Dr. Frank F. Rands735.photobucket.com/albums/ww360/butterflyfive/

      "In God We Trust" Happy moments, praise God. Difficult moments, seek God. Quiet moments, worship God. Painful moments, trust God. Every moment, thank God.

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      • #4
        Beautiful!
        Surgery March 3, 2009 at almost 58, now 63.
        Dr. Askin, Brisbane, Australia
        T4-Pelvis, Posterior only
        Osteotomies and Laminectomies
        Was 68 degrees, now 22 and pain free

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        • #5
          How beautiful! That brought me to tears!
          Would you mind if I shared it with friends on my blog?
          My One Crooked Momma blog
          Fused T1-L1 May 21st 2008
          From 51* to STRAIGHT! Thanks Dr. Shelokov @ Baylor

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          • #6
            Very nice! My wife loved it too!

            I do have one question though... Are you going to update the song for every year the scar gets older?

            Brad
            Surgeries July 26th & August 3rd 1983 (12 years old)
            Still have 57 degree curve
            2 Harrington rods
            Luque method used
            Dr David Bradford
            Twin Cities Scoliosis Center
            Preop xray (with brace on)
            Postop xray

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            • #7
              I loved it! You have an amazing voice, and I love the piano too. I liked this verse. It's fitting.

              With this scar,
              That represents my life
              A good old fashioned fight
              The willingness to survive
              This scar
              Says it's okay to be scared
              It's okay if you're scared
              But be prepared
              1994 curve at age 13, 70 degrees, untreated
              2000 Anterior fusion with instrumentation T9-L2, corrected to 36 degrees, 14 degree angle between fused and un-fused thoracic spine.
              2007 26 degrees junctional scoliosis
              Revision surgery, 6th December 2007 T4 to L3, Posterior approach.
              msandham.blogspot.com

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              • #8
                Lisanicole,

                I LOVED it; thank you very much; I needed to hear that right now. SNIFF....
                __________________________________________
                Debbe - 50 yrs old

                Milwalkee Brace 1976 - 79
                Told by Dr. my curve would never progress

                Surgery 10/15/08 in NYC by Dr. Michael Neuwirth
                Pre-Surgury Thorasic: 66 degrees
                Pre-Surgery Lumbar: 66 degrees

                Post-Surgery Thorasic: 34 degrees
                Post-Surgery Lumbar: 22 degrees

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                • #9
                  Thanks!!!

                  OH YAY.

                  I was a little apprehensive posting it, but thanks for all your lovely words! I'm so happy that you like it.

                  Qikdraw - I asked myself that question, I guess everytime I perform it I can update it as the years go by!

                  mmw - Please, share it with anyone you want!

                  I have been posting videos on youtube for a few months, and never had one with so many views so quickly.... exciting. Thanks everyone!
                  lisanicolegrace
                  29/F/Canada
                  Surgery - 11/10/2000
                  80° curve to 19° post op.
                  www.lisanicolegrace.com
                  @lisanicolegrace
                  facebook
                  x-rays
                  picture of my back

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                  • #10
                    Dear Lisa Nicole,

                    I saw the lyrics of this song on your blog and loved them! How much more powerful to hear them sung by you.

                    I appreciate your sharing them with the people who would find it the most meaningful.

                    Are you okay if I post the lyrics (crediting you) and a link to the video on MY blog?

                    A vocalist really has to put herself 'out there' and I admire the way you've done that!
                    Ginger Woolley

                    Oct 2018, L3 - S1, Anterior & Posterior, Dr Sigurd Berven, UCSF, San Francisco
                    ******
                    May 2008, T4 - L3, Dr. Ohenaba Boachie, Hospital for Special Surgery, NYC
                    ******
                    Sept 1967, T4 - T 11, without instrumentation, Dr Thomas Brown, Stanford

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                    • #11
                      Originally posted by Ginger W. View Post
                      Dear Lisa Nicole,

                      Are you okay if I post the lyrics (crediting you) and a link to the video on MY blog?

                      A vocalist really has to put herself 'out there' and I admire the way you've done that!

                      Ginger,

                      Yes I'd love for you to put the lyrics on your blog. Which I have visited!
                      Thanks for the lovely words.
                      lisanicolegrace
                      29/F/Canada
                      Surgery - 11/10/2000
                      80° curve to 19° post op.
                      www.lisanicolegrace.com
                      @lisanicolegrace
                      facebook
                      x-rays
                      picture of my back

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                      • #12
                        Thank you! I posted it on my blog and have shared it with other friends, it truly is amazing, even my husband LOVED it!
                        My One Crooked Momma blog
                        Fused T1-L1 May 21st 2008
                        From 51* to STRAIGHT! Thanks Dr. Shelokov @ Baylor

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                        • #13
                          I loved it too

                          Lisanicole
                          I'm a little late to the party, but wanted you to know that I loved the song - it brought me to tears. Thanks for sharing.
                          FeliciaFeliciaFelicia
                          10/24/00 posterior fusion T4-L4 at age 57
                          8/5/05 posterior surgery for spinal stenosis at L4-L5; laminectomy and fusion
                          5/14/07 posterior revision with fusion to sacrum
                          2/11/08 anterior discectomy L5-S1, and reinforcement of fusion with plate attached to L5-S1
                          3/9/2011 and 3/11/2011 revision surgery with Dr. Lenke, St. Louis - complete revision and fusion with instrumentation from T1 to sacrum, one lumbar osteotomy.

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                          • #14
                            Hi Lisanicole
                            I haven't posted since my surgery 'til now...but I felt moved to comment - wow a very moving, lovely song - thanks for posting the link here - beautifully sung and excellent pianist.
                            Louisse
                            PS Long post due soon (I promise!)
                            Diagnosed aged 17 thoracic curve of 40°/48? given brace worn for short time but was then told that I had stopped growing and it wasn’t likely to get worse. Follow ups ‘got lost in the system’ and I chose to ignore until age approx 33, after two children. Now nearly 42yrs curve was progressing (last xrays 67 degrees) and increasing 'backache' so surgery (posterior T3 - L1) went ahead beginning of September 2008 in UK - thoracic curve now approx 20° and I look a lot straighter!

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                            • #15
                              Good to hear from you Louisse! And Lisanicole, I haven't posted because I haven't gotten a chance to listen to it yet... I have dial-up internet and that just doesn't cut it... but I am looking forward to hearing your song and beautiful voice.
                              71 and plugging along... but having some problems
                              2007 52° w/ severe lumbar stenosis & L2L3 lateral listhesis (side shift)
                              5/4/07 posterior fusion T2-L4 w/ laminectomies and osteotomies @L2L3, L3L4
                              Dr. Kim Hammerberg, Rush Univ. Medical Center in Chicago
                              Corrected to 15°
                              CMT (type 2) DX in 2014, progressing
                              10/2018 x-rays - spondylolisthesis at L4/L5 - Dr. DeWald is monitoring

                              Click to view my pics: pics of scoli x-rays digital x-rays, and pics of me

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