I have a quick topic that I have been wrestling with as to
whether or not to share on our business blog. I have
decided to go ahead because, it is key to what we are doing here:
As many of you know, we had a very rough winter here with
our family due to a neck injury that I received in November
of last year. Basically I ended up in bed, unable to take
any noise or light and restricted to being able to
occasionally make it to the restroom. We were scared to say
the least. "What about our farm, and soap business?" was a
common question that would be on our minds constantly during
this time. I visited a friend in Boone who is a doctor, and
from that point we realized that what we had going on was
very different from the norm, because at this point we did
not realize I had a neck injury. I was then referred to 2
other specialist (eye and brain) and they were stumped as
well. The brain scans (all 4) showed that I was perfectly
normal, so what in the world was wrong?
For about 2 weeks,
Cory was on the phone with the world, and we tried
everything suggested, but when you have
Parkinson's/MS/stroke/drug withdrawal symptoms, patience was
running out quickly! It was finally suggested,after a month
of being in bed in a dark room without any normalcy in my
life, that we see a chiropractor. A local chiropractor
actually had to make a house call and from that, looking
back know, I realized that although my main symptoms had not
changed, I was not waking up with my "normal"
headache-before-the-shower in the morning anymore (although
I could barely get to the shower). When
symptoms did not change and the possibility of Lyme's
disease was now in the picture, we were referred to another
chiropractor that had the ability to have blood work done. Upon
visiting him, and after hearing our story of our trips to
Boone and Winston for about 6 weeks now, he recommended that
we not do blood work, but that we take a better look at my
"atlas". (where my brain sits on my spine) The x-ray
revealed that my atlas was indeed about 3 degrees off,
meaning I had a crooked head. (because I am not a doctor, I
am sure these terms sound silly!) The "adjustments" needed
for this are fairly extreme at first, but I had been through
the ringer up until that point; so we thought, "Can't hurt
to try". With-in a week, things were changing. It took about
another month to get back to where I felt fairly normal,
meaning I wasn't shaking uncontrollably anymore, my reflexes
and nervous system were calming down, and I did not appear to
be on "overdrive" any more. We were very excited to see the
progress, as you could imagine! I feel about 100% now, and
we are having a blast here on the farm getting things back
in order for the season.
The reason I felt compelled to share this with you, and how
Dr. Nieland "saved my life", is because as I was planting
the other day, I realized I would not be able to this of
things hadn't taken the course they did, and I hadn't been
refereed to him. When a doctor "cares" enough to go out of
his way to help, it makes a ton of difference. I was
privileged to have 3 of them that cared out of the 10 I saw,
but the main difference came from the last one, Dr. Nieland,
who went above and beyond "normal" chiropractic care
(actually they should all know what he knows; in fact the
neurologists should as well!) to save our farm! Now, all of
you get to benefit from his work, so stop by his office, Family
Chiropractic on Boone Trail by the hospital, when
you get a chance and thank him!
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