Swimmers Share Recovery Stories 2 Bangor Girls Have Same Surgery

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BANGOR - Joanna McFarland and Sarah Nichols are both members of the Bangor High School swim team. They're friends, Nichols and McFarland say, but on a 66-girl team, in a high school of almost 1,500 students, they don't really know each other that well.

For example, Nichols didn't know at first that she and McFarland were both operated on by the same doctor who performed surgery for scoliosis, a side-to-side curvature of the spine that frequently appears in adolescents.

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Swimmers Share Recovery Stories 2 Bangor Girls Have Same Surgery

McFarland had her surgery Aug. 11, 2005. Nichols followed about 10 months later, on June 27, 2006.

Both girls are well on their way to full recovery. McFarland, a senior, had to take her junior year off but is back swimming and racing full time.

Nichols, a ju...

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