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1. Hi Summer! My name is Moriah Swan, and believe it or not, I’m in your AP Statistics class online! I was going through class bios and I was reading yours and came to this website. your story is incredible and totally inspiring! It’s amazing that you are doing so much for girls our age. I would love to know how you’re doing today and be kept posted! Send me an email sometime! 🙂

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2. This is so cool! I always get so excited when I found out someone new has read my blog! I will definitely send you an email, so we can chat and get to know each other better 🙂

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   • Summer, Howdy !!! It was enlightening and wonderful to see a ‘new friend’ in Moriah. It’s a small world how lives can become so intertwined. It is really cool how you can chat (hip reference to talking, communicating – sight unseen with supposed privacy). I hope ya’ll enjoy each other and the time you share.
     As an old fogy, I get disappointed at how things are charged along lines of gender in our modern world. If you are only ‘doing’ with the sole purpose of helping girls your age, as referenced by Moriah, then you will find either a very small pie or that you have only acquired a very small slice from a very large pie. I would hope her intentions were not meant to be purposely refined or narrowed even though statistics tend to describe such boundaries, samples and groups. As far as I know, boys and men have scoliosis, at least Richard the Third did. I don’t know who get’s what or how often or at what age,etc. I admit my ignorance to any specifics. The thing about illness and disease is that it affects the whole body of the family, those who love and care, not just the body of the diagnosed person. Gender doesn’t matter. Your Daddy’s heart and soul writhed thinking about how his little girl’s life would be and has been defined (or not) by scoliosis. What to do, when to do, how to do – the broad spectrum of questions, doubts, emotions, prayers – everything love is all about. Needless to say, your mother, my sister, shed some tears and more than a few sleepless nights in pursuit of providing the best to help you. I believe if you help one person you are helping all because kindness, gentleness, faithfulness, love, these ‘medicines and routines’ just ooze understanding and goodness for everyone – sick or not. I realize Curvy Girls doesn’t relegate itself to the male perspective but then I’m an old fogy, a traditionalist, and Dancing with Scoliosis, predicates a boy/girl partnership as the rule and not the exception.
     I’m not intending on putting a damper on Moriah’s comment and I hope you have found a ‘new’ “friend” ’cause they are hard to find. It’s just that in this day of ‘diversity’ it seems unusual to limit conversation to only one half the population. Anyway, I ramble. I am pleased and proud of your efforts in all the varying spaces of your life. You are blessed as are we all with your life. You have put in a lot of sweat and tears and I daresay blood in your battle with scoliosis. Know you are respected and loved. You did the hard and painful work using the tools provided by your parents and family. Prayer has been a never ending process and with that everyone benefits ! You may still be young in years but you are a very, very smart and knowledgeable young lady. Please never forget, ‘Wisdom is the gift of God.” Love, from one pair of your aunt’s and uncle’s ! Blessings !! Later !!!!

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