I'm 80 I swear!!!

Supposedly I turned 14 yesterday but I feel like I turned 80! Since I started wearing the brace(over two years ago) I have lost all muscle in my back.  Now to do a push-up is not even possible.  I hurts to get in the position let alone to actually do one. My mom said that I can do one but I am just now doing it correctly, I know I am because my gym teacher showed me how.  It drives me insane because it really does hurt.  Lately my family and I have been traveling.  We are driving to all the places that we go, these places are both over five hours away.  My lower back is now starting to hurt when I sit for over an hour.  I think it is because I try to sleep in the car and have to bend my lower back to do so.  Because the brace does not really let me bend my back it starts hurting and does not stop for a long time.  These are just a few of the issues that have started happening since I started wearing a brace.  My guess is that soon I have more than i can even count, that is going to bother me until I get it off and hopefully have them stop.

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Hey everyone, I want to hear what you think about the blog.  Tell me about you, and your scoliosis.  This is supposed to help people like us get through the problems that scoliosis brings so tell me about them(most of us have probably been through them).  Let me know!  I am here to talk if you ever need something.~Katelyn

Knock Knock. Who's there?

Have people ever come up to you and knock on your stomach?  They have to me and it is very weird.  They find it funny that my stomach is as hard as rock.  People say I have rock hard abs.  That makes me laugh.  The best part is when you go up to someone who doesn't know you where the brace and tell them that you have rock hard abs.  They  won't believe you and so you say punch me in my stomach.  When they do it hurts their hand and then you laugh.  Best part of wearing the brace.

Clothesss

With summer coming the cute tank tops are out.  I love all of them.  But with the brace you either have to be okay with the brace showing or not wearing them.  I have decided that I don't care if the brace shows but then when you are out and it is hot your arms start to stick to the brace.  It is so annoying that I can't wear the cute summer clothes without being uncomfortable.  When i get out of the brace I will be wearing these tank tops all of the time.

Sleepppp

I don't know what's going on but I cannot sleep at all.  I think it is the brace but I can't decide.  The problem is that when I put it on to go to bed the straps get messed up.  Either the top of bottom is to loose or to tight and I can't get it where I want.  I need to figure this out because if I don't start sleeping through the night ughhh that's going to be bad.


Hey, if anyone has questions or wants me to talk about anything just let me know!


Katelyn

Summer!!!!!!

Okay it may only be the second day of March but summer is almost here!!!!  We have three more months of school left and then it is summer!!!!!  I can't wait till summer but then I don't want it to come.  With only three months and still soooo much still to do life is going to get crazy.  Especially with volleyball.  With a tournament every other week, school things, orchestra, and everything else that could possibly come up will.  With all of these things wearing the brace is going to get really hard.  Not because I don't want to wear it just because  going from one thing from another is really hard mentally and physically.  I think I already hurt my leg and it is hard to run.  Also I have recently learned I am unable to sit in bleachers for longer than 45 minutes.  I feel like an old lady not a 13 year old.  I can't do this or that and are you kidding me I can't do that!  Life is hard enough and then add the brace and it just got ten times harder!!!
Well that's all I have to go do homework!!! blehhh I can't wait till Friday!!

Hottttt

It may be the end of February but I was really hot today! The brace adds like 20 degress to the temperture.  I am always sweating through my tank tops.  I know that, that is nasty but it is true.  I hate it, I always feel sweaty and dirty.  My friends are always freezing but I am was sooo hot.  Summer is the worst though.  It never gets any colder, so im always hot! They have to find a way that these things can breath so we don't get so hot. I bet that one day some one gets heatstroke! But remember it will come off!!!!

Caught!

Have you every been going to sit down when your brace gets caught on the tabe or chair? I have and it happened twice today! I could not believe it. Now once a day I can handle but twice that just annoying. It kind of hurts because it gets pulled away from you but because it is strapped onto you it cant move. The first time it happened today I was sitting down and I almost fell off the chair.  It was really funny because the class was really quiet and then I almost fell.  Let's just say I laughed!

2-year check-up!

Today was my two year check-up for my scoliosis back brace.  It has been the longest two years of my life!  And I still have six months left! I do not think I am going to be able to last six months with it.  Maybe I will but it will not be fun.  Okay I guess I should introduce myself. 
I am Katelyn, I am 13 and I have worn a scoliosis back brace for two years.  I created this blog so that I could talk to people who are going to through the same things as I am.  No one understands how difficult it is to wear the brace everyday.  I am the only one in my school who wears a brace, so I have no one to talk to ablut the things I face everyday.  I hope that this blog can provide help to people who need it.  To let out anger when you need to or just to talk. 
Katelyn