#57 Lets Reminisce

3/26/2014

  I am looking at the cover of the magazine Reminisce for June/July 2008. The background is an orange sunburst pattern with a photograph harkening to times past with a Ford Model T parked on the grass in front of a field of lilac flowers covering rolling hills. There is the hint of a large tree in the upper right corner. The Ford is unique compared to our modern cars in some many ways including what we would think of as a bike horn mounted on the driver’s side and a crank starter over the Oregon antique vehicle license plate. We are led to reminisce about our youth, earlier times, simpler times, slower times, times when the world was bigger, more peaceful, when you could just lie on the green grass propped up against your Model T and take the time to smell the lilacs. A time when all things were just…well…more wonderful.

            So I was reminiscing about the past and I came up with a few things not only from my past, but perhaps from yours as well. Things that pull me back and make me wish that 2011 were but a dream. And then there are some wonderful gems from past generations that we can all appreciate, that make us take a moment and sigh a collective, “Ahh!”

            I remember not more than 15 or so years ago (that’s a 7 million in tech years) driving home after work, listening to my favorite radio station when there was a sudden beeping at my waist. I pulled the pager from my belt and looked at the flashing red light for an indication of who was calling me. Oh, wait, they haven’t invented a way of knowing who is beeping me yet. Then the dance begins. Find the next off ramp, the next gas station or convenience store, the next pay phone. My daughter is bleeding to death. My house is afire. A gunman is holding the family for ransom. I call the service. Wrong number?! What a waste of time. I love my smart phone.

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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.
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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.