First month brace free!!!

Hello again,


The first month w/o my brace was actually somewhat challenging b/c I realized that my brace was inhibiting my muscles in my back from getting stronger. So I had to deal with strengthening those muscles a bit. It was also so strange not wearing that brace and having that support that kept me straight. But I have to say an absolutely great part was being able to wear normal clothes again and not have to wear what would fit under or over my brace!!! It was actually hard to choose what to wear! I no longer needed to wear pajama pants all day! The downside was that I felt cold b/c I had adapted to the brace in the sense that it seemed to add 10 degrees to the temperature in the room. I remembered how when I first started wearing the brace I would get so hot and sweat like crazy and eventually I was quite comfortable with it on and no longer felt hot and sometimes even wore a sweater over the brace. Then when I finally took it off, I felt the need to pretty much wear two sweaters! It seemed so cold everywhere I went. But within a couple weeks I started to adapt and things seemed to return to normal. Plus it helped that spring was beggining to arive and it was getting warmer outside as well!