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My Journey From Diagnosis to Scoliosis Surgery as a Young Teenager
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It all started when my mother took a piece of loose-leaf paper, held it against my back, and used a fluorescent yellow highlighter to trace my spine. “Your spine is literally curving,” she said to me. “No, it isn’t.
That’s impossible. The doctor said it’s because my left lung doesn’t breathe well, so my right side is more developed. That’s why I have a shoulder hump,” I argued back.
But the infamous thin, yellow line on the wide-ruled, lined paper proved me otherwise. When my cardiologist, of all people, first said the word “scoliosis,” I had never heard the term before.
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