Infantile Scoliosis-Time for a Check-up

You know that feeling when you wake up from a bad dream?  You are scared and nervous by what just played out in your head?  You know that feeling you have in the very bottom of your stomach?  Maybe your heart is racing and it feels like you have something stuck in your throat?

Or maybe that anxious feeling when you are about to take off on a GREAT BIG roller coaster.  That anxious-scary feeling.......you know that one?

Well I am feeling all that and so much more this morning. It's nothing new.  It comes around about every 6 months and has been going on since July 2006.  I will tell you up front though, I put all my faith and trust in my Heavenly Father for this appointment tomorrow.

Ryan will go for a check-up and xray tomorrow to see how is spine is growing.

He has been without ANY support for 8 months now.  This is the first time since he was 15 months old that he has had NOTHING helping him grow straight!! 

Maybe now you see why I have all those feelings. So tomorrow we will find out how his little spine is growing.

Of course praying to God it is growing straight.  But I know with Infantile Scoliosis there is always a chance it could be twisting again.  At any growth spurt his little spine could decide to grow crooked.

Right now I do not see any rotation, but with such a small curve it is harder to tell with the naked eye.  Only an xray can tell us this.

I have always gone to every appointment feeling cautiously optimistic.  And I will do the same again tomorrow. 

Whatever the outcome is I will face it with a positive attitude.  Ryan is old enough now to see, HEAR and feel everything that I see, SAY and feel. 

I so badly hope to look into this face and say, "Way to GROW straight Ryan!!!!"

Prayers are appreciated.  And I will update tomorrow evening with what we find out. 


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