IT was the X-ray that first shocked Meg Macfarlane. The curve in the spine was so severe she did not realise at first that it belonged to her 12-year-old daughter Molly.
To their dismay, the family were told the X-ray was not only Molly’s, but she needed major and complex surgery called spinal fusion. The diagnosis was idiopathic adolescent scoliosis, which makes the spine curve and has no known cause.
