When I was a second grader I had a great idea to jump out of the barn loft. It really didn't look to far down, and I was sure that everyone would think that they needed to be my friend if I jumped out. Who wouldn't want to be friends with an acrobat? So I jumped..... And I was awesome..... Until I hit the ground. I somehow landed on my foot wrong.
I didn't exactly break it, I injured my heal plate. It hurt something awful. I went on crutches. So instead of being the incredible acrobat I had imagined, I got mocked for being a klutz. One good thing did come out of my injury though. I from time to time would have reoccurring pain in my heal. My mom finally took me to an orthopedic surgeon. He looked at my heal and discovered my injury was close to the growth plate and that's why the pain would come and go. As soon as I was done growing the pain would go away too.
That wasn't the good thing though.... I went to this orthopedic surgeon when I wasn't even eleven years old yet. He found something else, that was that I have scoliosis. He diagnosed me two years before the school screening. I had really early detection which allowed me to go into a brace that much earlier. My scoliosis was progressive and I truly believe that getting into the brace that early was the reason I avoided surgery. So see my idea to jump out of the barn loft was a great one!
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