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#76 What The He?? Am I Doing Here?  OR  One Slip And I'm Dead

4/2/2014

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            Yosemite holds a very dear place in the heart of my wife (Diana) and myself, and to our children as well.  When I as 19 and Diana was 18 we went against our parent’s admonitions and got married.  We had no money so we spent a week driving around the lower half of California for our honeymoon, spending 4-5 nights in Yosemite.  And it was then and there that our love for our nation’s second oldest national park was solidified.  Every couple of years we have made the pilgrimage back to the land of waterfalls, Sequoia trees, lakes, rivers, meadows, and granite domes.  One such dome that borders the famous Yosemite Valley is called Half Dome.  It is justly named because one half of the dome was sheared off by a glacier which left the remaining half.  After having gone to Yosemite for over 20 years, I finally decided to make the 8.2 mile one way trek from the valley floor to the top of Half Dome with my 13 year old son, Ricky.  We took off at dawn on a Friday and made great time.  8.1 miles after we had started we came to the dreaded cables.  You see, the national park rangers have set up the last 900 feet of the climb with steel cables running through posts set into holes in the side of the dome.  At the base of each pair of posts is a 2x4 piece of wood so you can rest during the climb.  This is all done by the park service for the weary hiker because the last 900’ is at a 40% angle of ascent on a sheer granite wall.  Undoubtedly weariness has contributed to deaths as people have fallen from the cables.     So let me tell you that when you first come to the base of these cables and look up as they disappear over the hump of the dome into oblivion, you wonder in your mind, or aloud as the moment may take you, “What the he?? am I doing here?”  As I said, I was with my 13 year old boy, so I could do little more than to say, “Ricky, put on your gloves.  Let’s climb.  And then tremble up the wall of death.

            Needless to say I survived the cables and then went on to lead two more teams to the top.  Getting to the top of anything can be a very great goal to achieve, most particularly when it comes to health.  Nice segue, huh?  There is no greater feeling than knowing not only that you are healthy but also that you are doing all that you can to remain healthy.  Throughout life there are hills and mountains for all of us to climb, and some will lead us to ask “What the he?? am I doing here?” 

            From a chiropractic perspective, there are three basic reasons why the he?? you are here in my office, the three benefits of subluxation correction.  In your mind you may fall more or less into one of the following categories, but in reality you are in all three right now.  First, less pain.  Second, slowing of spinal joint and disc aging and degeneration.  And third, improved overall health (due to improved organ function, improved blood supply, and less inflammation). 

            We all want to feel better right now.  We all want to have our spines last a lifetime (spinal degeneration is the largest cause of disability).  But mostly, we all want our bodies to work properly with a minimum of breakdown and disease.  These are all goals of our programs of Initial Intensive, Reconstructive, and Wellness Care.

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     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.