New here.....anyone have an older child going through casting?

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We are new to this board. Our son Aidan is 6.5 years old. He was diagnosed with

scoliosis when he was only 2.5, but for the last 4 years we have been told by

numerous doctors to " watch it and wait " , and then we were told that we were just

going to try and put off surgery as long as possible because there were no other

options. His curve has progressively gotten worse. It is currently at 90

degrees with a lot of rotation (although I'm not sure the numbers). We recently

moved from Omaha to Utah and we were referred to Shriners in Salt Lake. Aidan

was set to get his first cast February 15th, but was sick so he is now set to

get his cast March 23rd. We are nervous, but excited at the prospect of

avoiding surgery, at least for a while. I was wondering if anyone has an older

child that has done the casts. His doctors at Shriners are very optimistic for

him because he is still very very flexible. We are really hoping this will work

for him!!!