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Congrats !! I just had my one year anniversary! 🙂 glad all is well!

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Thanks Heather!

Dr Pacik asked for me to write about telling my parents at such a yougn age. For me I think its different than others, because I have a strange relatiobship with my parents. While we aren’t close at all, I do feel comfortable telling them certain things. My parents do not pry into my life so much, and I was not embarrassed to tell my mom really. I was very practical about it and told her how I felt, how it made me feel emotionally, and that physical therapy was not helping after a few years, and entiher were the medications. I told hr I felt other options were increasingly becoming a waste of money and that if insurance paid for this, we would be saving years on physical therapy… it cost us for the best physio where I live about 800 dollars for a summer treatment as our insurance would not pay for that practice, but we were told they had the best “results.”

I expressed how getting it now would be more beneficial for me, before I started setlling down after university and considering getting into a serious relationship. Getting it “out the way” was petty much how I put it…

She actually understood and said that they would obsere this financially and have a look. I don’t think I even told my dad… he just paid for it and joined us on vacationn that weekend. He didn’t seem to mind, or even want to know, as long as it was fixed and everyone was happy. They agreed to do it – but neither of my parents accompanied me during those two days, as per my request. Mom did some shoppig and dad worked, so I was fine with that. However, they were both very supportive of me, even if I was very closed about the situation and they respected my privacy, which was nice.

Hope that helps! I think the biggest thing is having a respecting relationship with them, and being as open as I felt comfortable with – I think my parents apprecaied that, but thats how our relationship works in general, so it was fine. We ended up having a great family vacation together afterwards!

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