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#54 Why Do I Hate Drugs And Avoid Medicine?

3/26/2014

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            I was about six years old at the time living in Anaheim in the house I grew up in until I was 16.  I had two sisters, 11 and 13 years older than me.  It was like having three moms, until one day when the neighbor lady came to the door with the youngest of my sisters on her arm.  It turns out that the neighbor saw my sister pull up in her car and stagger out of it.  Trying to help, she gave my sister her shoulder and guided her to the door.  I thanked our neighbor for her help and helped my sister to the couch.  She laid down and put a lunch bag on the coffee table and fell asleep.  I looked in the bag and saw an inch or so layer of pills and capsules, of a variety of colors.  This was my first experience with drug addiction.  I would later learn that my sister was addicted to a variety of drugs, including heroine.  Tough love eventually forced my parents to kick her out of the house.  She eventually found God, cleaned up, and made up with the family.  But her boyfriend, and then husband, and then father of her child, would not be so lucky.  While he did clean up for a time, even become a pastor of his own church, sadly he eventually slid back and overdosed, leaving my nephew without a dad.  I can still see those pills in my mind. 

            Fast forward 25 years.  I am now in practice here in Fontana.  This is before I had our computer so I gave classes on Wednesday nights for patients and their guests.  I remember an elderly woman telling her story to the audience.  Her husband some years before had gone to his medical doctor for his annual physical.  All went well and he was declared to be healthy.  The very next day he had a heart attack and died.  It was a dismal failure for the probing eyes of the annual medical examination. 

            Finally, contrast this with my home experience.  Every day of my childhood I observed my mother, now 93, taking great care to watch her and our diets.  She would literally exercise each and every day, including running, walking, yoga, aerobics, dance, etc.  She watched her weight fiercely.  And she would take over 30 supplements per day, with a dose in the morning and one at night.  She subscribed to Prevention Magazine and shared some of its content with me.  I never saw her take a medication with two exceptions.  First, after her appendix ruptured she had to take pain medications and antibiotics for a time.  Second, as she got into her 80’s she began taking Advil for arthritis.  And it was through her that I first learned of chiropractic.    She has taught me what a life without medicine looks like.   

            I hate drugs.  I abhor medicine.  I love chiropractic.  And I so enjoy seeing you take care of yourself to create a life for you and your family to avoid medicine and embrace chiropractic wellness care.   

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Yolanda wrote:
     
     I used to suffer severe headaches and migraines on a daily basis, usually all day.  I managed to work in an office because I had to.  When I went home at the end of the day I would often close the shades and go to bed.  I could not plan weekend events because I simply never knew how I was going to feel tomorrow.  If there were a special event such as a birthday or wedding, I would begin to medicate myself two weeks in advance to give myself the best chance of making the event.
     Friends and fellow church-goers had been trying to get me to see Dr. Rick for some time before I finally gave in.  Looking back, I don’t know why I waited.  Within a month, I was headache free.  I couldn’t remember what it was like to not feel pain.  I could do whatever I wanted and not live in fear of the headache.  This was a miracle for me, but the story does not end here.
     An opportunity came up for us to adopt a newborn baby girl not long after I began chiropractic care.  This baby was particularly important to me and my husband because her mother is a relative.  Tragically, her mother was also a drug user and did drugs during her pregnancy.  If we could not adopt the baby she would have been put into the foster system since the biological mother was incapable of raising her.
     To keep a long story short, we did adopt her and she is doing fantastically.  There is no sign of any effect of the drugs on her as of yet, and with God’s help, there never will be.  We think that is because of the vast amounts of love and attention she gets from us, her real mommy and daddy.
     What does this have to do with chiropractic?  The reality is that without chiropractic, I would still be nearly an invalid with headaches.  I COULD NOT HAVE TAKEN CARE OF AN INFANT OR RAISED A YOUNG CHILD.  THEREFORE, SHE WOULD NOT HAVE ANY OF THE OPPORTUNITIES IN LIFE THAT MY HUSBAND AND I WILL BE ABLE TO PROVIDE FOR HER.  MY DAUGHTER’S LIFE IS POSSIBLE BECAUSE SOMEBODY MADE ME GO TO A CHIROPRACTOR. 
     You need to tell everyone you know what you know about chiropractic.  Who knows who’s life you will change too.
Andrew's mother, Barbara, wrote:

     Hello, My name is Andrew and I am a happy, healthy one year old.  But I wasn’t so happy or healthy when I first met Dr. Rick a few months ago.  I had been having problems with my ears for four months, I couldn’t sleep at night and I was miserable.  We’d been to the doctor lots of times but nothing was helping.  In fact, all the medicines the doctor had tried seemed to make me worse instead of better!  Both the regular doctor and the Ear-Nose and Throat doctor said that if the antibiotics didn’t work, then they’d just have to put tubes in.  Now my Mom and dad weren’t about to let them do surgery on me, especially since they had been reading and learned that tubes can cause more problems than they solve.  My mom and dad did a lot of praying.  Then my mom heard that sometimes babies who have a traumatic birth like mine have ear trouble.  You see when I was born they used a vacuum extractor and forceps to pull me out.  I guess all that yanking on my head, hurt my neck.  She also heard that chiropractic care can be the answer.  Now she was skeptical because she couldn’t imagine a chiropractor helping ear infections!?!  But at that point she was willing to try anything!!  Happily, a few weeks of adjustments and my ears were all cleared up.  In addition, I no longer had a stiff neck or shoulders and my whole personality was happier.  I have to tell all babies who have ear troubles, don’t let them give you tubes until you at least try chiropractic care first.  After all, it can’t hurt and if you’re like me, you could be perfectly well with no drugs and no surgery.  In my family, we thank God for Dr. Rick, because I feel better, my mom and dad are happier and sometimes, I even sleep through the night.