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By the time I woke up in the morning, or better yet, realized it was morning in my comatose state, the pain I was in was tremendous! My mouth was on fire! Not burning type pain, but the pain was so bad it felt like it was. The hole where my tooth was pulled out just plain hurt, my teeth being moved felt like they were being pulled out without numbing medication being given to me, and my jaws felt like they were in a full-sized car crusher crushing a matchbox car! Dr. Janna had told me to take aspirin for the pain. I think something stronger was definitely needed, but I don’t know what. I will have to ask her when I see her again today. Then, there was my back, which was cramping so bad that even trying to move cause my whole body to hurt! How am I going to live with this for the next couple of years I have to wear something to help my back? I guess time will tell, but I’m definitely not looking forward to it! Before I knew what was going on, I was back at Dr. Janna’s office. Aurora

2. At the doctors office, the doctor had just finished telling my mom and I that I had a severe compound curve in my back. So, I said “Doctor, how do you plan to treat my back? I have a friend in school that wears this horrible back brace that goes from her chin to her pelvis. She complains about it all the time! She complains about it hurting her, how she cannot move her neck, cannot look down, or even see what she is eating without scooting back a long way from the table and bending forward to look at the plate! Please don’t give me that type of brace!” “Sara, I hate to tell you that you have to have that type of brace. It’s the only type that will work for your condition. We need to get you into our cast room, so that we can get started making your brace” Dr. Kent said. “I am also recommending that you wear a full body cast until the brace has been made and can be fitted onto you.” “But Dr. Kent, why do I have to have the body cast and the same brace? Isn’t there anything else

1. It all started with a routine school scoliosis exam. As we were all lined up, awaiting our turns, most of the kids including me, commented that this was stupid, and a complete waste of time. When it was my turn to go in, the nurse asked me to bend down and touch my toes, which I was lucky enough to be able to do, even though my budding breast hung down in the way of touching my chest to my legs. The nurse looked at my back and ran her fingers over my spine. She then lifted my shirt up, and looked and felt my back again. After that, she said that I could stand up again, and asked my name. After that, I was free to go, not thinking anything about what just happened. A few days later, my mom called me at home after I got out of school, to tell me that she was going to be home in 20 minutes, and that I had a doctors appointment in an hour. I asked what was going on, but she didn’t tell me, and just said that we would talk later. When mom got home, I went and got in the car with her