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.
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.