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#119 Referring Power

5/1/2014

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This is a true story.  The names have been changed.  Once upon a time there was a little girl named Sherry.  When Sherry was conceived her mother was addicted to drugs.  Sadly, she continued to use drugs during the pregnancy.  This mother did make one good decision, and that was to put Sherry up for adoption once she was born.  The aunt of this drug-addicted mother-to-be heard about her niece, her addiction, and her pregnancy.  The aunt, Maria, did not have children of her own.  She spoke with her husband and both agreed that they would bring Sherry home from the hospital, adopt her, and raise her as their own.  They did this without care for the emotional, physical, or other problems that a drug addicted baby would surely have.  They did this without consideration of the potential dollar costs of raising such a child.  They will tell you that they did this because God put a calling in their hearts that drove them to love this child regardless of the consequences.  And they did.  They would tell you that Sherry was a gift from God.

            Sherry was born.  Maria took her home.  They adopted her.  They raised her with all the love, attention, and affection that any child could ever hope for.  When Sherry was about 6 she had a final high risk pediatric neurological examination with the team of doctors who had been looking after this child since day one.  The doctors told Maria and her husband that not only was Sherry doing fine, but she was excelling, and that there were NO residual effects of her drug addiction that they could detect.  But the doctors didn’t stop there.  They told Maria that the reason why Sherry was doing so well was not due to her medical care or her occupational therapy or any other intervention that she had along the way.  Sherry was doing so well simply because of the time, love and attention that Sherry’s mommy and daddy were able to give to her.  This adopted family, the only family that Sherry had ever known, without a doubt had completely and utterly changed Sherry’s entire future life.  They were God’s gift to Sherry.

            In the middle of all of this, when the doctor’s told Maria how good Sherry was doing, Maria sat down with me to share a part of her story that she had not shared with me up to then.  It would seem that several years before I met Maria a chain of events were set into motion that were intimately tied to this story.  Fellow church-goers for at least a couple of years had been trying to get Maria to come to my office for treatment of her headaches, which were daily and constant, severe, and quite debilitating.  She kept ignoring her friends, taking her medications, muddling through her work day, and staying in her darkened room all weekend.  If there was a weekend family event she would up her meds just to get through the event.  Thankfully, some loving soul kept nagging her and nagging her and finally Maria made an appointment, came in, told me her history, had her exam and x-rays, and we started care.  As is the case with at least 95% of my patients, she did very well and her headaches abated.  Eventually, she moved on to reconstructive and eventually wellness care.  End of story right?  Wrong.

            While we were sitting down that day she filled me in on the missing piece.  She told me that if it was not for her finally listening to her friends, getting her chiropractic exam, participating in chiropractic adjustments, and finally finding relief from her debilitating headaches, that she physically could not have even considered adopting Sherry.  Clearly without Maria and her husband Sherry would be a vastly different person with a much bleaker future.  This is not really a chiropractic story.  This is a love story.  But it does show the power of referral.

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Tom link
6/10/2023 04:19:48 am

Good readd

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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.