It all began in my first month in my mother's womb in 1982. MRI's were not around so when I was born and they saw a perfectly healthy little baby with a fatty mass on her lower back, they X-rayed it. They found that I had a butterfly vertebrae at T10 and blocked vertebrae at T11. T10 is fused with T9 and T11. Dr. McCraney said that the fatty mass was just "baby fat" and my body would grow into it. They followed me for a few years. I was a very hyperactive child who just flipped and flopped all over the place, so there was no reason to think anything more could be there.... Fast forward through many years of Gymnastics, Basketball, Cross Country, Golf, Swimming, and Life guarding. The "bump" or "as I called it to make light of my big booty was "5th cheek" continued to grow with me. June 2001, age:18. I had just finished my freshman year at Delta State. A very active year at that. I was home working as a lifeguard at the courthouse for the summ...