Hello everybody! I'm sorry I haven't been posting as much, I've had a lot on my mind. I have so much to share so this will be one of my "ranting" posts. I'm going to share the medical things first, I had two doctor appointments for my brace. The first one I had is where I had to get an x-ray without my brace. I was supposed to take my brace off the night before the x-ray and sleep without it. But when I'm lying in my bed, chilling with my laptop many things float out of my mind. So I slept with the brace on. I'm so used to it now, I don't even feel it! So the next morning at the doctor's when I had my x-ray I told the nurse that I didn't sleep without it. She said it was fine and I would still get the x-ray. After my x-ray, my mom and I were just waiting in the room. When we were waiting I noticed something outside the window. We were on the second floor of the building and outside the window was a ridge. The ridge connected to the next wall so there was a small 3-sided box almost. You could only notice it from the window. In the small box-like setting there was a squirrel's nest. I started watching the squirrel sleep and it was so cute! Then my mom was watching it too. She noticed that it was acting funny. When we looked closer we saw that the squirrel was actually a mother! I had two little squirrel babies huddled under her. I started freaking out because it was so cute, squirrels are my second favorite animal. I have never seen a baby squirrel before that. Sorry, I get distracted easily and when I make posts I feel like I have to explain everything. Haha. Okay, back to back braces. When the doctor came in we was ecstatic because my x-ray was really good, my curves were less. But that's when I told him I slept with the brace on. You're supposed to take it off so your curves can shift back to where they would be without the brace. He was a little less happy but he said that if my curves were that small without my brace with a few minutes he said they couldn't be much worse, such as surgery level. Then he also said that on my hip there was a fleck of bone and that meant that I'm almost done growing. Maybe two years at most. So that means that I can count the days until my brace gets off: two years at the most! Yay! It feels good to know how much time is left, instead of wandering blindly in the dark. I can see a light now. Yeah, it's a metaphor, I think. So that was my first appointment. My second appointment was with my other doctor to see if my brace still fits. It fits perfectly right now but he thinks that I'll need another brace before I'm done for good. I wonder what color I should get? Anyway, after my appointments my mom took me to get a Java Chip Frap then I had to go back to school. Figures. Those were my back appointments, now it's time for clothes! I've been on two shopping trips since I've posted clothes so I have ALOT of new clothes to show. I've just been really lazy to change and put on the new clothes.
This isn't as much as new "styles" as just me experimenting with layering...again.
Jeans: Marshalls
Tank, Jacket, and Coral T-Shirt: Hand Me Downs
Belt: Came off a dress
Necklace: Charming Charlie's
(Sorry my room is such a mess).
Okay, so I'm going to interrupt my pictures with what I did with my brace when I went on vacation. I went to Disney World which is down in Florida. There were three main problems. A) Florida is HOT even without the brace B) I can't get my brace wet C) Security at the airport. My mom and I asked the doctor what I should do about the brace and he said for vacation I could take it off as long as I like. That got rid of A and B problems but after awhile my back started to ache so much. I think it's because I have my brace on so much, my back has been getting sort of lazy since it's not supporting itself. I also don't do a sport, I'm not "athletically" inclined so I do a lot more of music/theatre things. So my back doesn't get exercise. I just sort of ignored it though. My family and I thought that the brace might set off the metal detector in security. So what I did is I took the brace off and put it in a pillow case. We put the pillow case with the brace in it through the big machine which check all the bags. It was fine, the security people didn't ask any strange questions about it. I'm sure they've seen things like my brace before. But other than that it was easy bringing my brace to Disney. So if you have a vacation coming up- don't worry!
Actually this post is getting too long so I'll put the rest of the clothes in a different post.
Bye emBRACErs. :)
