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Gabby: Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis
<strong>"Wearing a brace was my greatest hardship. Avoiding back surgery was my greatest triumph."</strong></h2>\r\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">– Gabby, Patient</h3>\r\n"}} id=text-2e752236a4 class=cmp-text>
"Wearing a brace was my greatest hardship. Avoiding back surgery was my greatest triumph."
– Gabby, Patient
The doctor looked me in the eye and told me that the curve in my spine had gotten worse. I was going to have to wear a brace for 22 hours a day to keep it from progressing. I cried. My mother cried.</p>\r\n<p>For the next six years, I wore my brace faithfully. It wasn’t easy. Sitting behind a desk at school all day long was difficult. Sleeping in my brace was a whole separate issue.</p>\r\n<p>After six long years of wearing a back brace, my spine stabilized at 27 degrees. My four braces, each representing a challenge I was able to overcome, remind me that I was never broken, just bent.</p>\r\n"}} id=text-059a1703a1 class=cmp-text>
The doctor looked me in the eye and told me that the curve in my spine had gotten worse. I was going to have to wear a brace for 22 hours a day to keep it from progressing. I cried. My mother cried.
For the next six years, I wore my brace faithfully. It wasn’t easy. Sitting behind a desk at school all day long was difficult. Sleeping in my brace was a whole separate issue.
After six long years of wearing a back brace, my spine stabilized at 27 degrees. My four braces, each representing a challenge I was able to overcome, remind me that I was never broken, just bent.