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| Keywords: braces brace shoes girls uniform school boots leather girls leather sandals girlsleathersandals rubber straps Newly fitted girls orthopedic boots fitted with her grey winter stocking / ribbed tights. With Otho boots and footwear the reality of what awaits the patient in that room off the orthopedic specialist office is something else. I know behind there waits a form of something they only have imagined in my nightmares...the soft hose and pretty bows have become BOOOTS or special orthopedic SHOES ...or worse back brace, rigid metal rods, with moulded plastic shells to encase her body, tight pulling panels, with numerous Velcro straps and endless buckles digging into my tender "puppy" flesh, pulled tight so she can hardly breath, feeling the tears well up inside her!!! Oh that uncertainty and fear and self conscious thinking... instilled in me over years leading up to this point,that I knew I would need to be "ortho booted" and braced someday as I was growing up ... I still vividly remember the fitting session, feeling those boots being laced up for the first time , hearing the nurse and orthopedic doctor droning on about wearing the boots 12 hours a day and the "rules" needed when wearing them !!! Is this really happening... stretched out feeling the boots getting tight around my ankles and feet, the stocking and tights used as socks now encasing my entire lower body... Feeling my whole body warm up as I dream of my new life in orthopedic boots, I'm now wet everywhere. So ..what would my life be like now, fear of rejection, fearing being rejected or teased as a baby or a freak, would anyone ever love me again... These are real teenage fears... Newly fitted girls orthopedic boots fitted with her grey winter stocking / ribbed tights. With Otho boots and footwear the reality of what awaits the patient in that room off the orthopedic specialist office is something else. I know behind there waits a form of something they only have imagined in my nightmares...the soft hose and pretty bows have become BOOOTS or special orthopedic SHOES ...or worse back brace, rigid metal rods, with moulded plastic shells to encase her body, tight pulling panels, with numerous Velcro straps and endless buckles digging into my tender "puppy" flesh, pulled tight so she can hardly breath, feeling the tears well up inside her!!! Oh that uncertainty and fear and self conscious thinking... instilled in me over years leading up to this point,that I knew I would need to be "ortho booted" and braced someday as I was growing up ... I still vividly remember the fitting session, feeling those boots being laced up for the first time , hearing the nurse and orthopedic doctor droning on about wearing the boots 12 hours a day and the "rules" needed when wearing them !!! Is this really happening... stretched out feeling the boots getting tight around my ankles and feet, the stocking and tights used as socks now encasing my entire lower body... Feeling my whole body warm up as I dream of my new life in orthopedic boots, I'm now wet everywhere. So ..what would my life be like now, fear of rejection, fearing being rejected or teased as a baby or a freak, would anyone ever love me again... These are real teenage fears... | ||||
