• 1st and 2nd day, I was just sleepy.
• 3rd day, I had to sit up and have some liquids and food.
• 4th and 5th day, I had to walk around the hospital floor.
• 6th day, I finally went home. The ride was very uncomfortable and whenever we went through a bump it hurt my back. I felt a lot better when I got home because I felt a lot more comfortable in my own bed with my best friends (my big long pillows that I suggest you to buy ,they are very helpful).
• 7th day I was already standing up and sitting down by myself without any help.

I got fully recovered and out of medications with in two weeks after I got home. I didn’t go to school because it was Christmas vacation, my mother set it up like that so I wont miss a lot of days in case I didn’t feel very well after surgery, but I went back the first day of January and I stayed a full day with no discomfort.

As of today I feel like I didn’t even get a surgery except for when I have to put lotion on my scar, it feels very weird and hurts a little. My doctor told me I’m able now to do anything. I could do cheerleading this year and I could get together every Friday during winter with my friends to ice skate (which it was a huge issue for me at the very beginning of my surgery). I’ve already been to Hershey Park and ridden Rolla coasters in July.

I grew two or three inches taller and I would recommend not being so afraid because after all it’s worth it and it’s not a big deal and remember I had two surgeries back to back within one week. Pain is not an issue because doctors make sure you get enough pain medicine and they won’t let you suffer, I even need it a different pain medicine than morphine because my body got use to it and it didn’t work on me anymore, doctors call the Pain Team (group of specialist on pain medication) and they arrange a new medicine for me, I never even cry for pain or discomfort just when I had to get up for the first time and went I got gas on my stomach from not eating. It’s not like I would go thru it again but if I could help anybody with they fears about scoliosis I would say in my case it was fine for the such a big surgery it is and after all you hardly remember what happened, all I know is because my mother told me about it.

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