{"id":35,"date":"2011-01-30T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-30T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hollyvandyne.com\/blog\/?p=35"},"modified":"2014-09-21T11:04:47","modified_gmt":"2014-09-21T11:04:47","slug":"waking-up-to-wall-e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hollyvandyne.com\/blog\/?p=35","title":{"rendered":"Waking up to Wall-E"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I fought against getting leg braces for over ten years.<\/p>\n

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It didn’t help that when the doctor told me I should have them, I pictured the big metal contraptions Forrest Gump wore and thought “No Way!”<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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But last year I gave in. I knew we were going to try to go to Disney World in the summer and I knew I couldn’t go when my legs would wear out after walking five\/ten minutes.<\/div>\n
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They are AMAZING<\/i>.<\/div>\n
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Why didn’t I put my pride in check and get them ten years ago? I’ve been wearing them for a year and I never leave the house without them.<\/div>\n
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Yesterday I thought I’d be a trail blazer and go to Sam’s Club without them – silly girl! By the time I got to the back of the store I thought I was going to have to crawl back to the register, my legs were that tired. Thankfully I made it back to my car, but it was excruciating. And I learned my lesson.<\/div>\n
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I was talking to a friend a week ago. She was telling me about her friend who also had Charcot Marie Tooth disease and said that her friend refused to get braces. I wish I could talk to her friend. I could probably walk for miles without my legs getting tired and I LOVE IT<\/b>. I feel like my braces have given me brand new legs.<\/div>\n
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And of course, it helps when I wake up in the morning to find little “surprises” in them from my five-year-old. \ud83d\ude42<\/div>\n
YAY for my legs!<\/div>\n

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