What is Scoliosis. This is a curvature of the spine but can be different from person to person. In this blog I will be telling my journey from diagnoses to treatment and how i coped. It was from around the age of one that my parents started to notice that i wasn't sitting properly in my baby carrier. Every time I was at hospital my parents would mention it them that i seemed to be stooping forward in my carrier and that i looked extremely uncomfortable. The doctors would look at me and say, oh the reason he stooping forward is because he is protecting his stoma. How could a one year old baby know they have a stoma and need to protect it. Now back in those days in the early 70s there were no stoma bags for babies. All I had was bandages wrapped around me many many times, so at that stage my parents just thought the doctors know best they must be right. Over the next couple of years as I started to develop and grow i was shown signs that all was not good with the s
I was hoping to continue a daily blog whilst i was in hospital for my surgery but sadly this was not possible for a number of reasons. So this is what i went through. On Thursday 14 June my hospital admission was a very long day to say the least. I had to be on the ward by 2pm and on my arrival I was told my bed was not available at the moment and would i wait in the day room for a short while. Over 6 hours later i was finally shown to my bed and a nice big private room. So it was worth the wait. By this time I was very restless but also needed to build up courage to ask about my stoma care. Finally did and the HCA came to answer my buzzer. It was hard get th words out but managed it and was told she would let my named nurse know. Few minutes later the HCN returned to take my blood pressure. Oh my it was high along with my heart rate. I was asked if something was bothering me. I explained that i find hard asking for help with my stoma care. The HCN sat down and